{ "id": 40367, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hurricane-maria-one-year-later/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Hurricane Maria One Year Later", "description": "In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history. \n\nTwo new NASA research efforts delve into Hurricane Maria's far-reaching effects on the island's forests as seen in aerial surveys with high-resolution lidar and on its residents' energy and electricity access as seen in Night Lights satellite data from space. The findings, presented Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C., illustrate the staggering scope of Hurricane Maria's damage to both the natural environment and communities and expose vulnerabilities in infrastructure.", "release_date": "2018-12-09T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2018-12-10T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 398082, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004658/bmhd_11_0940_searchweb.png", "filename": "bmhd_11_0940_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization starts with a global view of hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico. We then zoom in to Puerto Rico to compare the standard night lights dataset to a new, high definition version of nights lights. After the hurricane passes over the island, we see a massive drop in night light intensity due to loss of power. After showing night light levels over several stages of hurricane recovery, we transition to a 'Days Without Power' dataset. The camera then zooms in to several locations around the island to examine each stage of recovery in more detail. ", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 }, "media_groups": [ { "id": 371336, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hurricane-maria-one-year-later/#media_group_371336", "widget": "Basic text (large)", "title": "Overview", "caption": "", "description": "In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history. \n\nTwo new NASA research efforts delve into Hurricane Maria's far-reaching effects on the island's forests as seen in aerial surveys with high-resolution lidar and on its residents' energy and electricity access as seen in Night Lights satellite data from space. The findings, presented Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C., illustrate the staggering scope of Hurricane Maria's damage to both the natural environment and communities and expose vulnerabilities in infrastructure.", "items": [], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 371337, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hurricane-maria-one-year-later/#media_group_371337", "widget": "Card gallery", "title": "Night Lights and Energy Use", "caption": "", "description": "Miguel Román", "items": [ { "id": 410866, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4658, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4658/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "NASA's Black Marble night lights used to examine disaster recovery in Puerto Rico", "description": "At night, Earth is lit up in bright strings of roads dotted with pearl-like cities and towns as human-made artificial light takes center stage. During Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's lights went out.In the days, weeks, and months that followed, research physical scientist Miguel Román at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his colleagues combined NASA's Black Marble night lights data product from the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with USGS-NASA Landsat data and Google's OpenStreetMap to develop a neighborhood-scale map of energy use in communities across Puerto Rico as the electricity grid was slowly restored. They then analyzed the relationship between restoration rates in terms of days without electricity and the remoteness of communities from major cities. || ", "release_date": "2018-12-09T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2019-09-17T15:04:45-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 398084, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004658/bmhd_11_0940_print.jpg", "filename": "bmhd_11_0940_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization starts with a global view of hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico. We then zoom in to Puerto Rico to compare the standard night lights dataset to a new, high definition version of nights lights. After the hurricane passes over the island, we see a massive drop in night light intensity due to loss of power. After showing night light levels over several stages of hurricane recovery, we transition to a 'Days Without Power' dataset. The camera then zooms in to several locations around the island to examine each stage of recovery in more detail. 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During the split screen, 2017 data is on the upper left and 2018 data on the bottom right. As the camera moves northwest, the viewer can see patches of ground becoming visible in the 2018 data. 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During the split screen, 2017 data is on the upper left and 2018 data on the bottom right. As the camera moves northwest, the viewer can see patches of ground becoming visible in the 2018 data. This is due to the vast numbers of trees that were stripped or fell during Hurricane Maria in September 2017.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 410868, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4621, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4621/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico Canopy Change Nadir View (2017-2018)", "description": "Animation that does of a low fly over of El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico. The entire animation is split screen showing the 2017 data on top and 2018 on bottom. Notice the dense lush forest canopy in 2017 and how it covers and shades much of the forest floor. However, in 2018, after Maria devastated the forest in late 2017, the tree canopy has been greatly thinned exposing much more of the forest floor. || evzoom_comp4.0300_print.jpg (1024x576) [316.8 KB] || evzoom_comp4.0300_searchweb.png (320x180) [121.7 KB] || evzoom_comp4.0300_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || Sample_Composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || evzoom_comp4_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [15.4 MB] || evzoom_comp4_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [199.0 MB] || evzoom_comp4_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [186 bytes] || ", "release_date": "2018-12-10T12:01:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-06T00:12:31.818230-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 398451, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004621/evzoom_comp4.0300_print.jpg", "filename": "evzoom_comp4.0300_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation that does of a low fly over of El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico. The entire animation is split screen showing the 2017 data on top and 2018 on bottom. 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G-LiHT data is also used to initialize and validate 3D radiative transfer models, and intercalibrate Earth observing satellites.\n\nG-LiHT was specifically designed for use with a wide range of common, general aviation aircraft in order to provide affordable, well-calibrated image data worldwide.", "instance": { "id": 857473, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/HurricaneMariaOneYearLater/G-LiHT_PuertoRico.jpeg", "filename": "G-LiHT_PuertoRico.jpeg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "G-LiHT Lidar, passive optical and thermal data provide an analytical framework for the development of new algorithms to map plant species composition, plant functional types, biodiversity, biomass and carbon stocks, and plant growth. G-LiHT data is also used to initialize and validate 3D radiative transfer models, and intercalibrate Earth observing satellites.\n\nG-LiHT was specifically designed for use with a wide range of common, general aviation aircraft in order to provide affordable, well-calibrated image data worldwide.", "width": 2354, "height": 3838, "pixels": 9034652 } }, { "id": 410873, "type": "link", "extra_data": null, "title": "Aerial Photos Flickr Album", "caption": "A Flickr album of photos from NASA's G-LiHT campaign to Puerto Rico in April 2018 to study the forest recovery since Hurricane Maria.", "instance": { "id": 857472, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/HurricaneMariaOneYearLater/G-LiHT_King_Air_hangar.jpg", "filename": "G-LiHT_King_Air_hangar.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A Flickr album of photos from NASA's G-LiHT campaign to Puerto Rico in April 2018 to study the forest recovery since Hurricane Maria.", "width": 2062, "height": 3719, "pixels": 7668578 } } ], "extra_data": {} } ] }