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Productivity/yield gaps, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Remote sensing model choice drives water pricing forecasts in water-scarce basins
03/02/2026
Case study AETIAGBP*NPPPTBP
Crop water consumption
Remote sensing-based impact assessment of GCF interventions on water productivity and biomass production across two interventions and two control sites
14/01/2026
Case study AETINBWPNPP
Advisory services, Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps
IMISET: irrigation management information system for Ethiopia
31/12/2025
This Python-based tool utilizes WaPOR datasets to offer essential features for agricultural water management that include calculation of seasonal agricultural water consumption that evaluate the total water volume used by crops during a growing season
Resource AETIAGBP*EGBWPILCCNBWPNPPPPheqLCC*qLSTqNDVIRETRSMTTBP
Drought, Measuring stressor impact
Pakistan Drought Management System (PakDMS)
31/12/2025
PakDMS (Pakistan Drought Monitoring System) is a web-based tool designed to monitor and map drought conditions using high-resolution near real-time WaPOR v3 data from 2018 and global datasets available from 2000 onwards.
Resource AETINPPPRET
Crop water consumption, Water accounting
Water use tool for Tunisia
31/12/2025
The tool leverages WaPOR's Level 3 actual evapotranspiration data and CHIRPS rainfall data.
Resource AETI
Crop water consumption
Water use tool for Algeria
31/12/2025
The tool leverages WaPOR's Level 3 actual evapotranspiration data and CHIRPS rainfall data alongside ground measurements from the Mitidja West Irrigation Scheme's telemetry.
Resource AETI
Advisory services, Irrigation performance, Water and land productivity
The Irrigation Reference to Enhance Yield (IREY) smart irrigation app (generation 3)
31/12/2025
Resource AETI
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
IPON – Irrigation Performance of Office du Niger
31/12/2025
The IPON tool (Irrigation Performante de l'Office du Niger) was co-created and co-developed with the Office du Niger.
Resource AETINPPP
Water and land productivity
Remote sensing and GIS-based WetSpass model for estimating actual evapotranspiration in Grombalia region, Northeast Tunisia: Comparison with FAO published data
30/12/2025
This study estimates actual evapotranspiration for the Grombalia phreatic aquifer in northeast Tunisia during the 2020/2021 agricultural season using the WetSpass water balance model integrated with Sentinel-2 imagery, and compares results with WaPOR data based on the ETLook model.
Case study AETI
Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Evaluation of FAO's WaPOR product in estimating the reference evapotranspiration for stream flow modeling
30/12/2025
This study evaluates WaPOR reference evapotranspiration (RET) data at 250-m resolution (Level 1) for use in hydrological modeling by comparing it against the Penman-Monteith (PM) and Modified Hargreaves-Samani (MHS) methods in the Bazoft Basin, Iran.
Case study RET
Water and land productivity
GEE RET: Cloud-based reference evapotranspiration calculation with google earth engine
30/12/2025
This study describes the development of the GEE RET, a free online software tool built on Google Earth Engine for calculating reference evapotranspiration (RET) and accessing meteorological data globally without requiring user-provided data or technical expertise.
Resource AETIRET
Water and land productivity
Estimating reservoir evaporation: fusing Kohli and Frenken method and the FAO's WaPOR product
30/12/2025
This study employs WaPOR reference evapotranspiration (RET) data at 250-m resolution (Level 1) to estimate reservoir evaporation across seventeen dam reservoirs in Iran over a 9-year period from 2009 to 2018.
Case study RET
Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Economic productivity of irrigation water in large-scale irrigation schemes with different typologies: the case of Fincha'a and Koga irrigation schemes in the Abbay River Basin, Ethiopia
30/12/2025
This study uses WaPOR evapotranspiration data at 250-m resolution for hydrological model calibration and WaPOR Land Use Land Cover (LULC) data at 100-m resolution to identify and assess irrigation schemes across the Abbay (Blue Nile) River Basin, Ethiopia.
Case study AETILCC
Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Can the cropping systems of the Nile basin be adapted to climate change?
26/12/2025
This study integrates WaPOR evapotranspiration data at 250-m resolution (version 2) as a critical component for hydrological calibration of the SWAT+ model to comprehensively assess climate change impacts on different cropping systems across the Nile basin.
Case study AETI
Crop water consumption, Drought, Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Traditional land use is integral to ecological function in SW Madagascar
26/12/2025
This case study uses WaPOR Net Primary Production (NPP) data at 250 m resolution with decadal temporal resolution (2009-2022) to assess the long-term impacts of traditional land-use practices on contemporary ecosystem function in southwestern Madagascar.
Case study NPP
Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Estimating agricultural water productivity using remote sensing derived data
26/12/2025
This study investigated how remote sensing-derived data from WaPOR can support monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.4.1 on water use efficiency in the agricultural sector.
Resource AETILCCTBP
Drought, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Machine learning downscaling of GRACE/GRACE-FO data to capture spatial-temporal drought effects on groundwater storage at a local scale under data-scarcity
26/12/2025
This study integrated WaPOR evapotranspiration data with multiple remote sensing datasets and in situ observations to downscale GRACE satellite-derived groundwater storage estimates from 27 km to 5 km spatial resolution in the Barotse catchment of Zambia.
Resource AETI
Validation and evaluation
Evaluation of FAO's WaPOR product in estimating reference evapotranspiration for stream flow modeling
26/12/2025
This case study validates FAO's WaPOR remote sensing product for estimating reference evapotranspiration (RET) and evaluates its application in rainfall-runoff modeling using the HBV-light hydrological model.
Resource RET
Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
A holistic assessment of water resources and management in the Zarrineh river sub basin using water accounting plus
26/12/2025
This study applied the Water Accounting Plus (WA+) framework to evaluate water consumption pathways, land use productivity, and water productivity in the Zarrineh River sub-basin, Iran.
Case study AETIEINPPT
Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Insight for sustainable supplemental irrigation development for cocoa in changing Ghana's agroforestry landscapes
26/12/2025
This study assessed water resources potential for supplemental irrigation of cocoa farms in Ghana's Upper Offin basin using WaPOR actual evapotranspiration data for trend analysis and validation of hydrological modeling results.
Case study AETI