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WaPOR database methodology

Version 2 release, April 2020

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Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 90 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category High-profile

ISBN 978-92-5-132981-8

Edition 1

To cite or share https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9894en

Synopsis (short abstract) 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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​FAO. 2020. WaPOR database methodology: Version 2 release, April 2020. Rome. 

https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9894en

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