Satellite observations reveal inequalities in the progress and effectiveness of recent electrification in sub-Saharan Africa

Replication code and data for the paper "Satellite observations reveal inequalities in the progress and effectiveness of recent electrification in sub-Saharan Africa" published in One Earth (DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.03.007)

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This repository hosts:

A JavaScript file to process remotely-sensed data into Google Earth Engine (step 1)

A R script, to be run after the successful completion of the Google Earth Engine processing (step 2)

Supporting files to run the analysis (e.g. a shapefile of provinces, validation data, etc.)

Create a Google account, if you do not have one, and require access to Earth Engine https://signup.earthengine.google.com.

Make sure your Google Drive has enough cloud storage space available.

Clone the repository.

Run the JavaScript file in Google Earth Engine and wait that the data processing is complete (can take >24 hours)

Run the R script, which will reproduce the analysis and the figures contained in the paper.

Open the QGIS project files to replicate maps with the appropriate layout.

Source code-related issues should be opened directly on GitHub. Broader questions of the methods should be addressed to [e-mail]