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Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation
METRIC and WaPOR Estimates of Evapotranspiration over the Lake Urmia Basin: Comparative Analysis and Composite Assessment
14/02/2024
This paper compares WaPOR evapotranspiration data to evapotranspiration calculated using the METRIC algorithm by focusing on the Lake Urmia basin in Iran.
Case study AETI
Irrigation performance
SOSIA+: Small-Scale Open Source Satellite-based Irrigation Advice
14/02/2024
SOSIA+ will expand on the scope of SOSIA by completing the satellite-based data with real time ground data from weather stations and soil moisture sensors provided by TAHMO (Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological...
Case studyResource RET
Water and land productivity
Standardized protocol for land and water productivity analyses using WaPOR
14/02/2024
This GitHub repository contains a methodology guiding users to understand the different layers contained in the FAO Water Productivity Open-access portal (WaPOR) which can be used for land and water productivity...
Resource
Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
An assessment on field-scale spatial variability of sugarcane yield with satellite
14/02/2024
This study investigates the relationship between actual evapotranspiration (AETI) and yield in remote sensing AETI products by WaPOR and Vandersat by taking into consideration two modalities of measuring plant stress....
Resource AETI
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Litani 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
Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
Translating open-source remote sensing data to crop water productivity improvement actions
14/02/2024
Remote sensing data has great potential to change the way we interact with and understand our agricultural systems. Yet, much work and expertise goes from the data to information and...
Case study AETILCCNPPqLCC*qNDVI
Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
A diagnostic framework for water productivity variations in irrigated agriculture, setting targets and actions for improvement: a case study on the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
14/02/2024
WaPOR data was used in the Bekaa Valley to calculate the water and land productivity of irrigated wheat crops in order to identify the productivity gaps and evaluate the best options to fill them.
Case study AETIAGBP*LCCRETT
Water and land productivity
Irrigation Performance Assessment Abadiska and UAAIE Irrigation Scheme
14/02/2024
Understanding the performance of this irrigation scheme is of great importance for evaluating the productivity of other schemes. Such understanding could help to design possible intervention mechanisms that could be...
Case studyWaterPIP AETILCCNPPPRETT
Water accounting
WaPOR for Water Accounting
14/02/2024
To be in a better position to face challenges related to the sustainable use of our finite freshwater resources, especially in countries with rapidly expanding populations, it is crucial to...
Case study AETILCCP
Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Validation and calibration of FAO's WaPOR product (actual evapotranspiration) in Iran using in-situ measurements
14/02/2024
This study focuses on the Zayanderoud basin in Iran and aims to calibrate and validate WaPOR evapotranspiration (AETI) data using a scintillometer, an instrument that measures variations in temperature, humidity,...
Case study AETILCC
Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Remote Sensing-Based Agricultural Water Accounting for the North Jordan Valley
14/02/2024
In this study, WaPOR data was used in agricultural water accounting to assess levels of agricultural water consumption and to provide possible solutions for water deficiency in the North Jordan Valley....
Case studyResource AETILCCP
Validation and evaluation
Assessment of the Crop- and Economic Water Productivity in Rainfed Wheat and Maize in Kenya by using AquaCrop and WaPOR
14/02/2024
Crop Monitoring Service-Kenya (CROPMON) aimed to provide smallholder to medium-sized farmers in Kenya with weekly information about their crops and the weather in order to help them make better decisions...
Case study AETIGBWP
Measuring stressor impact, Water and land productivity
Change in agricultural indicators 2009-2020 (GEE dashboard)
14/02/2024
This web-based app provides the average value of six agricultural indicators over the period 2009-2020 and the percentage change over the period based on WaPOR data.
ResourceWaterPIP AETIGBWPPRETTBP
Validation and evaluation
Agronomic analysis of WaPOR applications: confirming conservative biomass water productivity in inherent and climatological variance of WaPOR data outputs
14/02/2024
This study aims to assess whether spatial variability in biomass and evapotranspiration (ETa) as shown by the WaPOR database (version 2.1) could be attributed to human-influenceable factors, local climate variations,...
Resource ENPPRETT
Advisory services
Global outlook on climate services in agriculture: Investment opportunities to reach the last mile
14/02/2024
This report published by the FAO presents the latest data on the state of climate services for agricultural users with surveys from 36 countries across all FAO regions. The report...
Case study
Crop water consumption, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
Introduction to Monitoring Water Productivity
14/02/2024
In this introductory webinar on the Water Productivity Masterclass Series (week 1), water productivity is introduced as well as other indicators for measuring irrigation performance at several scales. Next is...
Case studyResourceWaterPIP AETILCCNPPRETT
Measuring stressor impact, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
Geospatial assessment of cultivated cropland extent in the Sudan: July to September 2023
14/02/2024
A rapid assessment was conducted in July, August, and September 2023 to estimate the extent of cultivated cropland in Sudan, considering the disruption caused by armed conflict, using geospatial data...
Case study NPP
Validation and evaluation
Evaluation of WaPOR V2 evapotranspiration products across Africa
14/02/2024
The main aim of this academic study is to contribute to the validation and assessment of WaPOR data products both against in-situ data and against multi-scalar (spatial and temporal) water...
Resource AETIP
Water accounting
Estimating reservoir evaporation: fusing Kohli and Frenken method and the FAO’s WaPOR Product
14/02/2024
WaPOR's Reference Evapotranspiration layer was used in this study, in combination with an existing estimation method (the Kohli and Frenken method) to estimate reservoir evaporation (RE) in seventeen stations in...
Case study RET
Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Utility of Copernicus-Based Inputs for Actual Evapotranspiration Modeling in Support of Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture
14/02/2024
  This paper seeks to demontstrate the fitness of Copernicus data in quantifying spatial and temporal patterns of the actual evapotranspiration (ET) which can serve as a direct proxy of crop...
Resource AETI