WaPOR goes global: Version 3.0 was launched during the Rome Water Dialogue – check all the updates
Ms Livia Peiser, Technical Officer of the WaPOR project, introduces the improvements for version 3.0.
The WaPOR portal, with support from The Netherlands, has been freely providing users with near real time data (every 10 days) since 2017. Data on water productivity and other related variables lend themselves to a variety of uses such as irrigation scheduling advise for farmers, monitoring and improving agricultural production, water accounting, irrigation performance assessment, drought monitoring, assistance for transhumance, among others.
Since then, the data has been continuously improved, and a participatory methodology review process has provided the opportunity to collectively prioritize improvements of WaPOR.
WaPOR v3.0 was launched on 4 October 2023 during the Rome Water Dialogue’s Technical session 1: Data, information, innovation, and technology. The session was presented by Mr Jippe Hoogeveen, Senior Officer of the Land and Water Division, and was moderated by Mr Johannes Cullmann, UN-Water Vice Chair and Scientific advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly.
Ms Livia Peiser, Technical Officer of the WaPOR project, explained the improvements of version 3.0. WaPOR v3.0 features the Level 1 data (300m resolution) going global. This allows the easy evaluation of actual evapotranspiration, biomass production and water productivity in any agricultural area in the world.
Furthermore, the new version uses datasets with higher spatial and temporal resolution, complementary data to allow higher quality time-series and a new cloud mask procedure that helps increase data quality and usability in agricultural applications.
Check the dedicated page for version 3.0 to discover more improvements >>>
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