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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
Validation and evaluation
Evaluating reanalysis datasets as meteorological input for estimating reference evapotranspiration in Africa and Southwest Asia
26/12/2025
Comprehensive evaluation of ERA5, AgERA5, and GEOS5 reanalysis datasets as meteorological inputs for calculating reference evapotranspiration (ET₀) across Africa and Southwest Asia.
Resource RET
Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Comparison and validation of spatial reference evapotranspiration datasets over Africa
26/12/2025
Resource RET
Crop water consumption
WUT - water use tool for the Mitidja West irrigation scheme
18/09/2025
Resource AETI
Water accounting
Sustainability framework for expanding vegetable irrigation
18/09/2025
Case study AETIEILCCPT
Advisory services, Crop water consumption, Drought, Irrigation performance, Measuring stressor impact, Productivity/yield gaps, Water accounting, Water and land productivity
IMISET (updated) - irrigation management information system for Ethiopia
18/09/2025
Resource AETINPPPRETT
Drought, Measuring stressor impact
PakDMS - Pakistan drought management system
18/09/2025
Resource AETINPPPRET
Advisory services, Crop water consumption
WUT - Water use tool for the Bouheurtma irrigation scheme
18/09/2025
Resource AETI
Advisory services
IREY app - The irrigation reference to enhance yield smart irrigation app (generation 3)
18/09/2025
Resource AETI
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
IPON tool – Irrigation Performance of Office du Niger
18/09/2025
Resource AETINPPP
Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Water–energy–food–health nexus in Lebanon, a case study
05/05/2025
Case study NPPRET
Productivity/yield gaps
Water Productivity Analyses using the WaPOR Database: A Case Study in Wonji, Ethiopia
14/02/2024
WaPOR data was used in this study in Wonji to calculate the water and land productivity of sugarcane crops in order to identify the productivity gaps and evaluate the best...
Case studyWaterPIP AETILCCNPP
Validation and evaluation
Validation of FAO-frame remote sensing based agricultural water productivity estimates in the upper Awash river basin, Ethiopia
14/02/2024
This study takes for case study the Wonji Shoa large scale sugarcane irrigation scheme, in Ethiopia, and using a sample of 30 plots in that area, it evaluates WaPOR products...
AETIAGBP*NPPT
Advisory services, Irrigation performance
SOSIA: Small-Scale Open Source Satellite-based Irrigation Advice
14/02/2024
SOSIA is a tool (a Google Earth Engine app) with two connected components. The first component offers weather data based on virtual weather stations. Currently farmers rely on low-coverage real-time weather...
Case studyResource RET
Water accounting
Satellite Earth Observations in Support of the SDGs
14/02/2024
WaPOR data used to illustrate the ways in which Earth Observations can be used to further goal 6 of the SDG: clean to ensure availability and sustainable management of water...
AETI
Advisory services
PlantVillage Nuru
14/02/2024
PlantVillage is an app that helps farmers with information that helps them make better decisions in their fields. It equips farmer's smartphones with the ability to identify plant pests. WaPOR...
Case study NPP
Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
The application of the FAO WaPOR data portal to monitor efficient water use in agriculture: A case study on the Eastern Nile River Basin
14/02/2024
This thesis investigates the usability of WaPOR data in quantifying water withdrawals from irrigation and estimating physical water productivity. In addition to that, it explores how water productivity can help...
Case study AETILCCPPheRET
Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation
Influence of Spatial Resolution on Remote Sensing-Based Irrigation Performance Assessment Using WaPOR Data
14/02/2024
The study looks at three different irrigation performance indicators: adequacy, equity, and productivity across the three WaPOR data resolutions to assess the impact of spatial scale on the performance of...
Resource AETINPPRET
Crop water consumption, Water and land productivity
Monitoring Water Productivity using WaPOR (part 1)
14/02/2024
In this Water Productivity Masterclass Series webinar (week 2), WaPOR is introduced in detail. WaPOR-based indicators for water productivity are presented and the use of the WaPOR analysis tool is...
ResourceWaterPIP AETIRETT
Drought, Water and land productivity
Drought observe: near-real-time drought monitoring for Africa using FAO WaPOR datasets
14/02/2024
The monitoring system uses WaPOR's bio-physical indicators in conjunction with rainfall data to detect drought-induced vegetation stress. It outputs near real-time high-resolution spatial maps of drought intensities over Africa in,...
Case studyWaterPIP AETILCCPPheRET