WaPOR database methodology: version 2 release

The FAO portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open Access of Remotely sensed derived data (WaPOR) provides, as of today, access to 11 years of continued observations over Africa and the Near East. The portal provides open access to various spatial data layers related to land and water use for agricultural production and allows for direct data queries, time series analyses, area statistics and data download of key variables to estimate water and land productivity gaps in irrigated and rain fed agriculture. WaPOR Version 2 was launched in June 2019 based on extensive internal and external validation and quality assessment. This document describes the methodology used to produce Version 2 of the data at the 250m (Level 1), 100m (Level 2) and 30m (Level 3) resolution distributed through the WaPOR portal.

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Main Authors: 187275 FAO, Rome (Italy). Land and Water Div. eng, IHE Delft Inst. for Water Education (Netherlands) eng 1423211779385
Format: Texto biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: Rome (Italy) FAO 2020
Subjects:agricultural production, land use, water use, water productivity, water availability, climate, precipitation, phenology, evapotranspiration, above ground biomass, land cover, classification, remote sensing, spatial data, databases, FAO,
Online Access:http://www.fao.org/3/ca9894en/CA9894EN.pdf
https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9894en
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Summary:The FAO portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open Access of Remotely sensed derived data (WaPOR) provides, as of today, access to 11 years of continued observations over Africa and the Near East. The portal provides open access to various spatial data layers related to land and water use for agricultural production and allows for direct data queries, time series analyses, area statistics and data download of key variables to estimate water and land productivity gaps in irrigated and rain fed agriculture. WaPOR Version 2 was launched in June 2019 based on extensive internal and external validation and quality assessment. This document describes the methodology used to produce Version 2 of the data at the 250m (Level 1), 100m (Level 2) and 30m (Level 3) resolution distributed through the WaPOR portal.