# Drought resistance detection, hydrological basins, and topographic risks of the Motagua River in Guatemala **URL:** \ **Category:** Show and tell\ **Created:** [28 July 2025 00:36 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/drought-resistance-detection-hydrological-basins-and-topographic-risks-of-the-motagua-river-in-guatemala/1093 "2025-07-28T00:36:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fmroque10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@fmroque10](https://community.qfield.org/u/fmroque10)\ **Post date:** [28 July 2025 00:36 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/drought-resistance-detection-hydrological-basins-and-topographic-risks-of-the-motagua-river-in-guatemala/1093/1 "2025-07-28T00:36:48Z")
Hi, I want to share with you a video demonstration of how I use QGIS and QFIELD to collect forestry ground information in the birthplace of the Motagua River, the largest in my country, Guatemala. I am Copernicus, European Earth observation program, and have developed two use cases about the Motagua River published in the Copernicus site. I used QFIELD to complement the satellite data. Here are the published case of studies: 1. How CLMS products show the impact of deforestation on the Motagua river life Link to Copernicus: [How CLMS products show the impact of deforestation on the Motagua river life — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service](https://land.copernicus.eu/en/use-cases/how-clms-products-show-the-impact-of-deforestation-on-the-motagua-river-life/how-clms-products-show-the-impact-of-deforestation-on-the-motagua-river-life) 2. Mangrove resistance to water contamination and plastic in the Motagua River in the Caribbean Sea of Guatemala I have trained local authorities of fourteen provinces along the Motagua River in Guatemala in topics about “Drought resistance detection, hydrological basins, and topographic risks of the Motagua River in Guatemala” using QGIS and QFIELD You can see the video tutorials of these courses in this page of my company, Lux Sigma: [Drought resistance detection, hydrological basins, and topographic risks of the Motagua River in Guatemala](https://luxsigma.info/droughtsbaisinENG.php) Hope you find this information useful for your own projects and show how QFIELD contributes to take ground data to plan climate change actions. The Qfield course contents is below: Contact: fernando@luxsigma.info INDEX 1. Area of interest delimitation in the western highlands of Guatemala north to Lemoa lake in Santa Cruz in El Quiche department. 2. Download the area of interest with Qgis raster tools to work with the map offline. 3. Create the vector layer of points data capture with these fields and datatype: Area: String. 4. Define the data attributes of each field: Area: Region1, Region2 Photo: attachment as picture 5. Download Qfield plug in for Qgis and configure the import and export directories to send the project to the mobile and get the data back to Qgis. 6. Take the field data from the Qfield app. 7. Update the Qgis project with the field data captured by the mobile Qfield app. 8. Display the data on Qgis map as vector and the pictures. ---
**Author:** ![mbernasocchi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex018/user_avatar/community.qfield.org/mbernasocchi/32/19_2.png) [@mbernasocchi](https://community.qfield.org/u/mbernasocchi)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2025 06:38 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/drought-resistance-detection-hydrological-basins-and-topographic-risks-of-the-motagua-river-in-guatemala/1093/3 "2025-07-30T06:38:55Z")
Hey Fernando, fantastic! do you think it would be possible for you to mention QField on the copernicus article? and would you be interested in writing a success story for [qfield.org](http://qfield.org)? here an example [QField - Efficient field work built for QGIS](https://qfield.org/success-stories/zero-invasive-predators.html) if so you can get in touch with @daniel cheers Marco ---
**Author:** ![fmroque10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@fmroque10](https://community.qfield.org/u/fmroque10)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2025 16:55 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/drought-resistance-detection-hydrological-basins-and-topographic-risks-of-the-motagua-river-in-guatemala/1093/4 "2025-07-30T16:55:38Z")
Hi Marco: Thanks for your message. I am very happy to be part of QField community. Next article I write for Copernicus, for sure I will mention Qfield. I would like to write a success story of Qfield about Copernicus, Qfield and my expertise in river basins in Guatemala. I will get in touch with [@daniel](https://community.qfield.org/u/daniel). We are in contact and have a nice day, Fernando ---
**Author:** ![fmroque10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@fmroque10](https://community.qfield.org/u/fmroque10)\ **Post date:** [31 July 2025 17:02 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/drought-resistance-detection-hydrological-basins-and-topographic-risks-of-the-motagua-river-in-guatemala/1093/5 "2025-07-31T17:02:47Z")
Hi Marco. I have clicked on @daniel link in the community website but no option to send him a message. Could you help me how to contact @daniel please. Thanks. Fernando