Friday, 5 May 2023 from 9.00 to 10.30 CEST | FAO headquarters (Ethiopia Room) and online

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WaPOR, FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data is migrating to the FAO Hand in Hand platform and will feature data obtained through an updated methodology (version 3.0).  

The FAO Land and Water Division is pleased to invite you to a presentation on WaPOR 3.0 to discover the new database and its improvements, get introduced to the new portal and its features and learn about applications and user's experiences. 

Since its first beta release in April 2017, the WaPOR portal, with support from The Netherlands, has been freely providing users with near real time data (every 10 days) on water productivity and other related variables that 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 that beta release, the data has been continuously improved to ensure it is as adequate as possible to its users' needs and to keep pace with developments in open remote sensing. These efforts will culminate, beginning 5 May 2023, in a phased release of the improved dataset with:  

• data covering Africa and the Near East seeing a resolution increase from 250m to 100m;
• high resolution areas are now at even higher resolution, from 30m to 20m;
• an improved methodology that increases data quality and usability in agricultural applications;
• additional data made available to users, such as relative soil moisture (beta product), expanding the possible applications of the data;
• Global coverage at 300 m resolution to be released in July 2023.

Event agenda

09:00-09:10   Opening remarks 

Lifeng Li, Director, FAO Land and Water Division 

Aart van der Horst, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands 

09:10-09:30   What’s new in WaPOR V3 methodology?  

Annemarie Klaasse, eLeaf 

09:30-09:45   New portal and new WaPOR website 

Karl Morteo and Alyne Spencer, FAO  

09:45-10:15   Sharing experiences from countries 

Marloes Mul, IHE Delft; Petra Schmitter, IWMI; National project coordinator, FAO (TBC) 

10:15-10:25   Questions and answers 

Moderated by Jippe Hoogeveen, FAO 

10:25-10:30   Closing remarks 

Jippe Hoogeveen, FAO

Visit the dedicated website for more information on WaPOR >>>