Posts tagged as QGIS

• Predictable, devastating and very fast: what the simulation of the flooding of the Rambla del Poyo reveals

  May 18 2025 Blog

  Data provided by the Polytechnic University of Valencia allowed El País to reconstruct, minute by minute, an unprecedented simulation of the Rambla del Poyo flood.
• What would Ukraine lose if it ceded the territory occupied by Russia?

  Feb 16 2025

  Moscow controls 20% of Ukrainian territory, an area rich in rare earths and home to Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
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  Paiporta under water

  Dec 29 2024

  We have measured the height of the water reached by the dana of October 29 in 140 locations, based on testimonies and marks still visible on the facades, to reconstruct the magnitude of the flooding.
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  The data show the extreme magnitude of Valencia's flood: it should only occur every 1,000 years

  Nov 12 2024

  The rainfall, flow and flooded area records compiled by EL PAÍS describe an absolutely unusual event by scientific standards.
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  How the war fronts in Ukraine have changed since the start of the Kursk offensive

  Sep 09 2024

  Russia advances on the Donetsk front and Kiev's troops are stuck on Russian territory.
• The coming floods: danas, storms, and medicanes, Mediterranean storms gain intensity

  Oct 19 2023

  The torrential rains that have battered Greece, Libya, or Spain in the month of September are a direct result of different atmospheric phenomena, but with a common denominator: global warming increases their intensity.
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  Why Did the Tenerife Wildfire Spread So Rapidly?

  Aug 27 2023

  Terrain configuration and the presence of Canary Island pine trees contributed to the fierceness of the Arafo and Candelaria fire
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  Decoding Fire Control: The Aftermath of a Blaze

  Apr 02 2023

  After extinguishing a fire like the recent one in Castellón, another task begins for some firefighters: analyzing data and images to plan for future blazes. With insights from one of these analysts, EL PAÍS reconstructs the efforts to control a major fire, the Pont de Vilomara (Manresa) blaze, which engulfed dozens of homes last July.
• The center of the world crumbles like a cookie

  Feb 13 2023 Blog

  Antarctica is already suffering heat waves that exceed 18 degrees Celsius and is melting at its edges. What's happening?
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  Inaccessible tunnels and new caves in the area devastated by the volcano of La Palma

  Sep 18 2022

  Scientists are trying to explore the network of volcanic tubes formed beneath the surface of the Tajogaite Volcano, which can be more than 10 kilometers long, but temperatures inside are still hellish.
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  Mexico has 30% of its land under high seismic risk

  Apr 18 2021 Blog

  Authorities risk's maps reveal that one third of the population is exposed to high or very high levels of seismic hazard. Researchers analyze the risks to prevent the probable damage of a major earthquake in the country.
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  The death of the last glaciers in Spain

  Jan 03 2021

  The last glaciers of Spain are disappearing. We went to the Pyrenees with a group of climate scientists to find out why.
• Custom tile writer script in Python

  Oct 16 2018 Blog

  Export a QGIS canvas to tiles, compatible with Leaflet or Mapbox.
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  GIS should be a must in newsrooms

  Mar 11 2016 Blog

  A course about the basic principles of cartography and GIS I gave to data journalism students at the University of Villanueva, in Madrid.
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  The power of remote sensing and its application to the media

  Jun 04 2017 Blog

  Exploring remote sensing through an analysis of two practical applications of the Difference Normalized Burn Index, focusing on the assessment of the severity of two major fires in Spain using Landsat 8 imagery.
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  Exploring the history of A Coruña through the construction years of its buildings

  Nov 21 2017 Blog

  Testing a new QGIS plugin for the Spanish cadastre mapping public lands in A Coruña.
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  Why are Spanish troops scattered all over the Mediterranean?

  Dec 09 2016 Blog

  Maps about the presence of Spanish armed forces in Italy, Turkey and Lebanon.
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  1992 Olympics in Barcelona: the city that changed forever

  Jul 24 2017 Blog

  We analyzed how the Olympics changed Barcelona forever on the 25th anniversary of the games using aerial images.