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Crop water consumption, Drought, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water accounting, Water and land productivity
Digital Earth Africa
18/03/2026
Resource AETIAGBP*EINPPRETRSMT
Advisory services, Drought
Khuzdar District Integrated Drought Analysis (Jan 2024 – Jul 2025), Pakistan
10/02/2026
Case study AETIPRSM
Advisory services, Water accounting
Water Availability and Demand (WAD) Tool
04/02/2026
Resource AETILCCP
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
Irrigation Performance Assessment and Diagnostics Tool (IPADT) - Jordan
04/02/2026
Resource AETINPPPRETT
Productivity/yield gaps, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Remote sensing model choice drives water pricing forecasts in water-scarce basins
03/02/2026
Case study AETIAGBP*NPPPTBP
Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation
Evaluating reanalysis datasets as meteorological input for estimating reference evapotranspiration in Africa and Southwest Asia
27/01/2026
Resource RET
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Water accounting, Water and land productivity
Relative canal supply assessment using actual ET
19/01/2026
Case study AETIPTBP
Crop water consumption, Drought, Irrigation performance
Impact of hydro-meteorological drought in Pakistan 2024-2025
19/01/2026
Case study AETIPRSM
Crop water consumption
Remote sensing-based impact assessment of GCF interventions on water productivity and biomass production across two interventions and two control sites
14/01/2026
Case study AETINBWPNPP
Advisory services, Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps
IMISET: irrigation management information system for Ethiopia
31/12/2025
This Python-based tool utilizes WaPOR datasets to offer essential features for agricultural water management that include calculation of seasonal agricultural water consumption that evaluate the total water volume used by crops during a growing season
Resource AETIAGBP*EGBWPILCCNBWPNPPPPheqLCC*qLSTqNDVIRETRSMTTBP
Drought, Measuring stressor impact
Pakistan Drought Management System (PakDMS)
31/12/2025
PakDMS (Pakistan Drought Monitoring System) is a web-based tool designed to monitor and map drought conditions using high-resolution near real-time WaPOR v3 data from 2018 and global datasets available from 2000 onwards.
Resource AETINPPPRET
Crop water consumption, Water accounting
Water use tool for Tunisia
31/12/2025
The tool leverages WaPOR's Level 3 actual evapotranspiration data and CHIRPS rainfall data.
Resource AETI
Crop water consumption
Water use tool for Algeria
31/12/2025
The tool leverages WaPOR's Level 3 actual evapotranspiration data and CHIRPS rainfall data alongside ground measurements from the Mitidja West Irrigation Scheme's telemetry.
Resource AETI
Advisory services, Irrigation performance, Water and land productivity
The Irrigation Reference to Enhance Yield (IREY) smart irrigation app (generation 3)
31/12/2025
Resource AETI
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps, Water and land productivity
IPON – Irrigation Performance of Office du Niger
31/12/2025
The IPON tool (Irrigation Performante de l'Office du Niger) was co-created and co-developed with the Office du Niger.
Resource AETINPPP
Water and land productivity
Remote sensing and GIS-based WetSpass model for estimating actual evapotranspiration in Grombalia region, Northeast Tunisia: Comparison with FAO published data
30/12/2025
This study estimates actual evapotranspiration for the Grombalia phreatic aquifer in northeast Tunisia during the 2020/2021 agricultural season using the WetSpass water balance model integrated with Sentinel-2 imagery, and compares results with WaPOR data based on the ETLook model.
Case study AETI
Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Evaluation of FAO's WaPOR product in estimating the reference evapotranspiration for stream flow modeling
30/12/2025
This study evaluates WaPOR reference evapotranspiration (RET) data at 250-m resolution (Level 1) for use in hydrological modeling by comparing it against the Penman-Monteith (PM) and Modified Hargreaves-Samani (MHS) methods in the Bazoft Basin, Iran.
Case study RET
Water and land productivity
GEE RET: Cloud-based reference evapotranspiration calculation with google earth engine
30/12/2025
This study describes the development of the GEE RET, a free online software tool built on Google Earth Engine for calculating reference evapotranspiration (RET) and accessing meteorological data globally without requiring user-provided data or technical expertise.
Resource AETIRET
Water and land productivity
Estimating reservoir evaporation: fusing Kohli and Frenken method and the FAO's WaPOR product
30/12/2025
This study employs WaPOR reference evapotranspiration (RET) data at 250-m resolution (Level 1) to estimate reservoir evaporation across seventeen dam reservoirs in Iran over a 9-year period from 2009 to 2018.
Case study RET
Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Economic productivity of irrigation water in large-scale irrigation schemes with different typologies: the case of Fincha'a and Koga irrigation schemes in the Abbay River Basin, Ethiopia
30/12/2025
This study uses WaPOR evapotranspiration data at 250-m resolution for hydrological model calibration and WaPOR Land Use Land Cover (LULC) data at 100-m resolution to identify and assess irrigation schemes across the Abbay (Blue Nile) River Basin, Ethiopia.
Case study AETILCC