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Advisory services, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
A Practical Farmers’ Toolkit – Geodata for Climate Smart Agriculture in Egypt
14/02/2024
The 'Farmers Toolkit' as presented in this project contains various geodata tools applicable for farmers to assist their decision-making and adopt climate smart agricultural practices, WaPOR data being one of...
Case study AETI
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...
Case study AETI
Water and land productivity
Standardized protocol for diagnostic analysis for water productivity variations
14/02/2024
This protocol focuses on analyses that can be conducted to explain the reasons behind spatial and temporal biophysical water productivity (BWP) variations. BWP is defined here as the relation between...
Case studyResource AETIEGBWPILCCNBWPNPPPPheRETRSMTTBP
Crop water consumption
An assessment of groundwater use in irrigated agriculture using multi-spectral remote sensing
14/02/2024
This study focuses on the assessment of groundwater use for irrigated agriculture in the area of Venda-Gazankulu area in the Limpopo Province, an arid region,  during the dry winter season.
Case study AETI
Water and land productivity
Monitoring Water Productivity using WaPOR (part 2)
14/02/2024
In this Water Productivity Masterclass Series webinar (week 3), the process for downloading data from the WaPOR portal is introduced. Using python, the webinar hosts showcase both how to process...
ResourceWaterPIP AETILCCNPPRETT
Crop water consumption, Water and land productivity
Socio-economic water productivity
14/02/2024
In this Water Productivity Masterclass Series webinar (week 5), economic and social water productivity are in focus with a case study from Peru and Colombia. Then, a presenter details a...
ResourceWaterPIP AETI
Advisory services
LARI-LEB
14/02/2024
This mobile application developed by LARI  provides its users (farmers) with information and recommendations that can help them better manage their farm activities. This information is presently mostly meteorological and...
Case study AETINPP
Measuring stressor impact
Satellite-derived information to assess the consequences of armed conflict on the agriculture sector: Syria
14/02/2024
The European Space Agency contributed to the World Bank Report “The Toll of War: The Economic and Social Consequences of the Conflict in Syria” with a series of analyses and...
Case study AGBP*
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Souss Massa River Basin, Morocco
14/02/2024
This study uses the Water Accounting + (WA+) framework to collect and evaluate the water resources status for the Souss Massa River Basin. The framework focuses on the use of...
AETILCCRET
Crop water consumption, Drought, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Water Consumption Dashboard
14/02/2024
The Water Consumption Dashboard shows and tracks agricultural water scarcity to better understand the situation from basin to field level by translating complex and actual geodata from WaPOR and commercial...
Case studyResource AETILCCNPPP
Water and land productivity
Mapping suitability for rice production in inland valley landscapes in Benin and Togo using environmental niche modeling
14/02/2024
This study developed an ensemble model approach to characterize the inland valleys suitable for rice rainfed agriculture using machine learning algorithms based on environmental niche modeling. WaPOR actual evapotranspiration, net...
Case study AETIGBWP
Water accounting, Water and land productivity
Balancing Water Demands and Increasing Climate Resilience: Establishing a Baseline Water Risk Assessment Model in Ethiopia
14/02/2024
In this paper, WaPOR data is used, in conjunction with other datasets, as input to compute a national baseline model for mapping water risks across Ethiopia. This model estimates water...
Case study AETILCC
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...
Case study AETIAGBP*NPPT
Advisory services, Crop water consumption, Drought, Irrigation performance, Measuring stressor impact, Productivity/yield gaps, Water accounting, Water and land productivity
pyWaPOR
14/02/2024
PyWaPOR is a repository that contains a Python implementation of the algorithm used to generate the WaPOR datasets. It can be used to calculate evaporation, transpiration and biomass production maps....
Resource AETIENPPT
Water accounting
WaPOR for water accounting
14/02/2024
This case study aims to introduce WaPOR data users to the usability of WaPOR data for water accounting. It does so by showcasing three examples of WaPOR data use for...
Case study AETIP
Water accounting, Water and land productivity
Rapid Assessment of the Water Accounts in Urmia Lake 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 NPP
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Souss Massa River Basin, Morocco
14/02/2024
This study uses the Water Accounting + (WA+) framework to collect and evaluate the water resources status for the Souss Massa River Basin. The framework focuses on the use of...
Case study AETILCCRET
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Awash 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
Atlas of Land Cover Maps: Sahel and West Africa
14/02/2024
WaPOR data was used to derive a rough land cover description of the countries of the Sahel. TBP and NPP were used as proxies to show the spatial distribution of...
Case study AGBP*NPP
Crop water consumption, Measuring stressor impact, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting, Water and land productivity
Water accounting and auditing in the South Atlas hydraulic basins of the Draa Tafilalet region
14/02/2024
The comprehensive methodology implements water accounting cycles combining rapid assessments with in-depth analysis, including stakeholder mapping, secondary data exploitation, field investigations, and modeling.
Case studyResource AETIGBWPLCCTBP