Key documents
WaPOR: remote sensing for reducing agricultural water productivity gaps
10/2025
Flyer that introduces WaPOR to potential users and to stakeholders involved in the WaPOR project. It sheds light both on the project itself and the portal that contains the data.
The dimensions of water productivity
10/2022
This document presents the different dimension of water productivity, and shows how remote-sensing data, including WaPOR data, can be helpful in monitoring it at different scales. The document illustrates these different dimensions through on a series of case studies.
Water productivity analyses using WaPOR: the case of sugarcane
04/2022
This document explores the use of WaPOR data in the context of sugarcane production. Two different case studies of sugarcane estates are explored: the case of Wonji, in Ethiopia, and the case of Xinavane, in Mozambique.
Map story: WaPOR data for groundwater monitoring
03/2022
This map story explores the potential of the use of WaPOR data to assist in the monitoring of groundwater abstraction in the Azraq basin, a basin that is the second most exploited in Jordan. Also, it goes to show the potential of pyWaPOR as a tool to extend the coverage of higher resolution WaPOR data to new areas of high relevance.
WaPOR 2: using remote sensing in support of solutions to reduce agricultural water productivity gaps
07/2021
This flyer introduces WaPOR to potential users and to stakeholders involved in WaPOR projects. It sheds light both on the project itself and the portal that contains the data. It is also available in French, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic.
WaPOR and ICT
04/2021
This leaflet deals with the use of ICT (information and communication technologies) in agriculture as extension and advisory services using concrete examples of applications that use WaPOR data.
WaPOR for monitoring agriculture in conflict areas
12/2020
In periods of conflict, the mechanisms for collecting agricultural data can be disrupted as it might be too unsafe for data to be collected in-situ, or crucial data-collecting infrastructure might be damaged. In such cases, remote sensing data (or earth observations data) can constitute a viable data source to turn to as an alternative or a complement. This case study explores the use of WaPOR data to monitor agricultural activity in conflict areas by focusing on the use of WaPOR data in Syria.
WaPOR for water accounting
11/2020
Water accounting is one tool that can assist with facing the challenges related to the sustainable use of our finite freshwater resources and it can be supported by easily-available open-access data. This case study aims to show how WaPOR (FAO’s portal to monitor Water productivity through open access of remotely sensed derived data) data can be used to support water auditing processes at different scales: the basin, the national scale and the subnational/scheme scale.
