Noticias

Como parte de la ejecución de las actividades del proyecto WaPOR, el equipo del proyecto de la FAO aprovechó la oportunidad el 13 de mayo para participar en una serie de sesiones de formación iniciadas por el sector de los recursos hídricos del 29 de abril al 5 de junio en el Ministerio de Rec...

As part of the implementation of the activities of the project "Monitoring the productivity of land and water by remote sensing" (WaPOR phase 2) funded by the government of the Netherlands, crop mapping data collection missions for season 1 were launched from 29 April to 13 May 2024 in the Mit...

Jorge Gutierrez, WaPOR national coordinator in Colombia, presented WaPOR project at the 6th Conference on the use of space technology for water management on 7 May in Costa Rica.

His presentation introduced the WaPOR project and the publicly accessible near real time database that uses s...

The Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ) in coordination with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), has organized a workshop to present the field data collection – crop mapping for...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) collaborated to host a co-design workshop aimed at advancing the irrigation performance assessment tool in West Al-Gharraf, Iraq on April 30th.

Technical experts from...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a technical session "Leveraging Geospatial Technology to Bridge the Data Gap for Efficient Management of Agricultural Water" at the WSTA 15th Gulf Water Conference, which took place on 28 April 2024 in Doha, Qatar. <...

As part of the first component of the WaPOR 2 project, focused on "Development and provision of high-resolution data (20 m)," the project's National Technical Team conducted two data collection campaigns on crop types in the targeted project areas, namely Jendouba and Kairouan. The first ...

The GEO Knowledge Hub team, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), organized a webinar to present WaPOR, FAO's Portal to Monitor Water Productivity through Open Access of Remotely Sensed Derived Data.

The webinar was held by FAO colleagues Livia Peiser, Senior...

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in collaboration with the FAO Sudan office, conducted a co-design workshop for a drought monitoring tool on April 22, 2024. The event took place at the ILRI compass in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the Monitoring Water Productivity (WaPOR pha...

A new MOOC on Introduction to WaPORv3 is now available and anyone can register and follow the course at their own pace. 

The course has four parts:

• Introduction to WaPOR v3
  
• The WaPOR portal v3
  
• WaPORDL: Download WaPOR v3 data
  
• WaPOR spati...

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in collaboration with the Direction Nationale de l'Agriculture (DNA) and with the support of FAO, have organized a workshop to co-develop an agricultural drought monitoring and management platform using WaPOR remote sensing data.

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From 13 to 15 March 2024, a WaPOR data introduction training was held in Bogotá, Colombia. The Institute for Water Education (IHE-Delft) organized the activity in collaboration with FAO. 

Entities such as the National Planning Department, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agricul...

Tres nuevas áreas de alta resolución están ahora disponibles en el portal WaPOR v3 para el nivel subnacional en el norte de Egipto (Egipto), Baixo Limpopo (Mozambique), y Mwea, Tana y Bura (Kenia).

Las áreas de alta resolución (nivel 3) a 20 mt pueden utilizarse para evaluar el funcionam...

El taller inicial de WaPOR 2 se llevó a cabo en Islamabad (Pakistán) el pasado lunes 4 de marzo.

Al taller asistieron 51 participantes de diferentes campos y de todo el país, incluidas cuatro provincias. Los participantes se involucraron activamente para mejorar la comprensión sobre la a...

Within the framework of the implementation of the activities of the project "Monitoring land and water productivity by remote sensing WaPOR phase 2" financed by the government of the Netherlands, a regional QGIS training for water productivity analysis is organized by the Food and Ag...

El 8 de febrero de 2024, el equipo de WaPOR visitó la zona del proyecto en Jendouba, Túnez. Jendouba es una de las dos zonas tunecinas de alta resolución, disponible a 20 m de resolución en el nuevo portal WaPOR. El Instituto Internacional de Gestión del Agua (IWMI) instaló sensores de humedad...

WaPOR, el portal de la FAO para el seguimiento de la productividad del agua mediante el acceso abierto a datos obtenidos por teledetección, fue presentado durante la sesión sobre digitalización del V Foro Mediterráneo, realizado del 5 al 7 de febrero en Túnez (Túnez).

El portal se presen...

Between 4 and 7 February, WaPOR hosted a regional training in Jordan including participants from Jordan itself, Iraq, Palestine and Egypt. 

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El pasado mes de noviembre, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) firmó un acuerdo con el Ministerio de Agricultura (MoA) de Etiopía para apoyar el Sistema de Información de Gestión del Riego (IMISET) en el país.

IMISET es un sistema de inform...