Rebuilding
by Lango Deen
ldeen@ccgmag.com
PUERTO RICO: Public-Private Partnerships National Response to Disasters and Emergencies
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iguel O. Román, a 2004 electrical engineering graduate of the University of
Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, is a research physical scientist in the Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Román serves as part of NASA’s Disasters Response Program, which represents the agency during emergencies, where NASA satellite data and products can be used to improve situational awareness and inform decision making. A major focus of Román’s work are day-night visible,
near-infrared, and multi-angle imagery instruments or the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
VIIRS is a sensor designed by Raytheon, and it is carried on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) weather satellite.
According to Earth Observatory’s Adam Voiland (Pinpointing Where the Lights Went Out in Puerto Rico), after Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico, Román and teams of scientists at NASA worked long days to make sure
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that groups like the National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) got high-quality satellite maps of power outages in Puerto Rico.
Most of the electric power grid and telecommunications network was knocked offl ine, Voiland said.
Ana Michelle Concepcion, assistant vice president, AT&T Business, said Hurricane Maria was a new event for everyone in Puerto Rico.
“As the storm quieted, we went out and, in shock, observed the new
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