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Water accounting
Drought Observe: near-real-time drought monitoring for Africa and MENA using FAO WaPOR data
14/02/2024
The WaterPIP Project has developed a drought monitoring system using the FAO WaPOR datasets and machine learning, named DroughtObserve. It offers maps of drought intensities at two administrative levels over Africa and...
Resource AETILCCNPPP
Crop water consumption, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
Water productivity and sugarcane production
14/02/2024
In this Water Productivity Masterclass Series webinar (week 4), sugarcane is the focus. The webinar addresses the sugarcane farmer's as well as the sugar industry perspective. Then, a presenter talks...
Case studyResourceWaterPIP AETILCCNPP
Crop water consumption, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
A framework for irrigation performance assessment using WaPOR data: the case of a sugarcane estate in Mozambique
14/02/2024
In this paper, WaPOR data was agronomically validated and used to compute seasonal indicators for the period 2015 to 2018 in a sugar estate in Mozambique. The WaPOR-based yield estimates were...
Case studyWaterPIP AETIEGBWPINPPT
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Jordan River Basin
14/02/2024
Water Accounting + (WA+) is a tool that allows for the collection, analysis, summary and reporting of water related information in river basins. WA+ uses remotely sensed and other open...
Case study AETILCCP
Water and land productivity
Earth Observation For Sustainable Development
14/02/2024
WaPOR data was used to estimate AGBP in countries in West Africa and the Sahel and the resulting maps were incorporated into a geoportal that aims to contribute to solving...
Case study AGBP*
Productivity/yield gaps
Bridging the gap between technology and policy: An assessment on how to report progress in efficient water use in agriculture by means of remote sensing data
14/02/2024
This thesis investigates the gap existing between the technical sphere of remote sensing technologies for water productivity (WaPOR) and the policy-making sphere that can use the insights from the former...
Resource
Irrigation performance, Water and land productivity
Solar Irrigation Potential Mapping in Africa
14/02/2024
This study identifies the potential areas for solar based irrigation in Africa. The framework uses a number of publicly available datasets of solar irradiation, land use, water resources, solar pump...
Case study AETIP
Water and land productivity
Atlas of Land Cover Maps: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco & Tunisia
14/02/2024
WaPOR data was used to derive a rough land cover description of the countries in Northern Africa. AGBP and NPP were used as proxy to show the spatial distribution of...
Case study AGBP*NPP
Validation and evaluation
Evaluation of FAO’s WaPOR product in estimating the reference evapotranspiration for stream flow modeling
14/02/2024
The lack of adequate data is an issue that unfortunately affects many parts of the world. This paper evaluates the adequacy of WaPOR reference evapotranspiration data to be used as...
Resource RET
Irrigation performance
WaPORIPA (beta): standardized protocol for irrigation performance assessment using WaPOR data.
14/02/2024
The objective of this repository is to calculate irrigation performance indicators using WaPOR data. It can accomodate two options for the water use and production data, the WaPOR version 3...
Resource AETIAGBP*EGBWPILCCNBWPNPPPPheqLCC*qLSTqNDVIRETTTBP
Water accounting
Rwanda Natural Capital Accounts: Water
14/02/2024
WaPOR evapotranspiration data was used to cross-check and complement the AETI data that was compiled by the Rwanda Meteo Agency. The in-situ data had to be estimated because of the...
Case study AETI
Water and land productivity
Monitoring SDG 6.4.1 indicator at national and sub-national scale using open access remote sensing-derived data: Lebanon case study
14/02/2024
This study explores the possibility of using open access data obtained by Remote Sensing (RS), and in particular the FAO (WaPOR) portal to compute SDG 6.4.1 in comparison with current...
Case study AETILCCNPPP
Crop water consumption, Water and land productivity
Estimating Water Consumption Through Hydrological Modelling In Mara River Basin
14/02/2024
This research uses modelling to estimate the irrigation water abstraction in a part of the Mara River Basin. It posits that this estimation is crucial information for resource development planning...
Case study AETILCCP
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Niger River Basin
14/02/2024
Water Accounting + (WA+) is a tool that allows for the collection, analysis, summary and reporting of water related information in river basins. WA+ uses remotely sensed and other open...
Case study AETILCCP
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Upper Niger River Basin
14/02/2024
This study used multiple datasets from the WaPOR database in a rapid water accounting plus (WA+) framework developed by IWMI and IHE Delft. The water accounts derived from this study...
Case study AETIEILCCPRETT
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
WaPORACT
14/02/2024
It is a suite of Python tools that permit the retrieval, the aggregation, the analysis, the visualization and the dissemination of FAO WaPOR water productivity data. The package is an attempt...
ResourceWaterPIP T
Productivity/yield gaps
Maize yield prediction and condition monitoring at the sub-county scale in Kenya: synthesis of remote sensing information and crop modeling
14/02/2024
Crop modeling and remote sensing (RS) technologies are essential for assessing crop conditions and predicting yields at larger scales. In this study, RS and a crop growth model are combined...
Case study Phe
Water accounting
A probabilistic framework for water budget estimation in low runoff regions: a case study of the central Basin of Iran
14/02/2024
This study uses WaPOR AETI data as an input to a probabilistic framework for estimating water budgets in low runoff regions using remote sensing products. It also suggests the paramount importance of accurate AETI estimations in ensuring water budget closure.
Case study AETI
Advisory services, Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Water accounting
IMISET - irrigation management information system for Ethiopia
14/02/2024
IMISET is a web-based information system run by the Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia that aims to support the monitoring of the performance and status of irrigated agriculture as well...
Resource AETI
Measuring stressor impact
WaPOR for monitoring agriculture in conflict areas
14/02/2024
Agricultural data occupies a central place in how our food systems are presently managed as well as the resources linked to them such as water or other inputs. In light...
Case study AETILCCP