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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
Advisory services, Drought, Irrigation performance, Water accounting
Drought risk management in the MENA region: the role of earth observations and open-source tools
26/12/2025
This book chapter discusses how WaPOR serves as a prominent solution to one of the major challenges in drought vulnerability assessments: the scarcity of impact data such as biomass productivity.
Resource AETIAGBP*GBWPNBWPTBP
Irrigation performance, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Evapotranspiration estimation using Surface Energy Balance Model and medium resolution satellite data: an operational approach for continuous monitoring
26/12/2025
This study demonstrates an operational approach for continuous water use monitoring over large basins using medium-resolution satellite data.
Resource AETI
Drought, Water accounting
Performance evaluation and verification of groundwater balance using WA+ as a new water accounting system
26/12/2025
This study applied the WA+ (Water Accounting Plus) water accounting framework to evaluate groundwater balance in the Plasjan basin, central Iran, utilizing FAO's WaPOR product to calculate evapotranspiration with enhanced accuracy.
Case study AETIEIT
Drought, Validation and evaluation
Assessment of meteorological drought impacts on rainfed agriculture using remote sensing–derived biomass productivity
26/12/2025
This case study evaluates WaPOR Version 3 as a proxy indicator for agricultural drought impacts in rainfed agriculture systems in Jordan.
Case study GBWPNBWPTBP
Crop water consumption, Drought, Irrigation performance, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Comparing WaPOR and ERA5-Land: innovative estimations of precipitation and evapotranspiration in the Tana Basin, Ethiopia
26/12/2025
This case study evaluates the performance of WaPOR portal data against ERA5-Land reanalysis in estimating daily precipitation and reference evapotranspiration at the basin level in Ethiopia's Tana watershed.
Case study PRET
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Water and land productivity
Estimating crop water productivity using remote sensing data at plot scale in an irrigation system: the case of Chisumbanje and Ratelshoek Estate
26/12/2025
This study integrates WaPOR-derived products with Surface Energy Balance Systems (SEBS) algorithms to estimate crop water productivity at plot scale in two contrasting irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe's Chipinge district from 2012 to 2020.
Case study AETINPPRET
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Validation and evaluation
Satellite-based machine learning for soil moisture prediction and land conservation practice assessment in West African drylands
26/12/2025
This study integrates SMAP, Sentinel-2, and WaPOR data through LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) modeling to enable accurate daily soil moisture prediction across fragmented smallholder landscapes in semiarid northern Ghana.
Case study AETI
Advisory services, Irrigation performance
Satellite-based approach for crop type mapping and assessment of irrigation performance in the Nile Delta
26/12/2025
This study developed a comprehensive framework for crop type mapping and irrigation performance assessment in the Nile Delta, Egypt, spanning 2015-2020.
Case study AETIRET
Advisory services, Water and land productivity
Mapping Hydrological Ecosystem Services (HESS) in major Vietnamese river basins using remote sensing and hydrological modelling to promote nature-based solutions
26/12/2025
This study quantified eight Hydrological Ecosystem Services (HESS) indicators across 16 major river basins in Vietnam covering diverse topographies and climatic zones for the hydrological years 2005, 2010, 2019, and 2022, representing wet, average, and dry climatic conditions.
Case study AETIEGBWPNPPTTBP
Water accounting, Water and land productivity
WaPOR4Awp: a dashboard for estimating agricultural water productivity to support monitoring SDG indicator 6.4.1 using WaPOR data
26/12/2025
WaPOR4Awp is an interactive dashboard developed to support monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 6.4.1 - Change in Water Use Efficiency, with a specific focus on the agricultural component.
Resource AETILCCP
Irrigation performance, Water and land productivity
Multiscale spatial variability in land and water productivity across the Gezira irrigation scheme, Sudan
26/12/2025
This study used WaPOR v2.1 data at 100 m resolution (Level 2) to assess spatial variations in land and water productivity across four hierarchical scales within the Gezira irrigation scheme in Sudan: tertiary units, secondary units, major units (irrigation divisions), and the entire scheme.
Case study AETIAGBP*NPP
Water accounting, Water and land productivity
Calculating water productivity using the WaPOR portal
26/12/2025
This study used WaPOR data at 100 m resolution (Level 2) for Iraq to calculate water productivity for winter wheat crops.
Case studyResource AETIAGBP*EINPPT
Irrigation performance, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Methodologies for water accounting at the collective irrigation system scale aiming at optimizing water productivity
26/12/2025
Comprehensive review of irrigation water accounting (IWA) methodologies for collective irrigation systems, examining procedures from water diversion to plant level, covering both conveyance/distribution networks and irrigated fields.
Resource RET