WaPOR

FAO's Water Productivity through Open Access of Remotely sensed derived data, WaPOR, monitors and reports on water productivity in agriculture in Africa and the Near East. It provides open access to the Water Productivity Database and its thousands of underlying map layers. It allows direct data queries, time series analysis, area statistics and data downloads of key variables associated with water and land productivity assessments. The portal's services can be accessed directly through FAO's WaPOR APIs, which are gradually being published and documented through the site. Water productivity assessments and other computationally intensive calculations are performed using Google Earth Engine. The current WaPOR database, which contains data related to biomass production, evapotranspiration, precipitation, land cover, and agricultural land and water productivity in Africa and the Near East, will be maintained and expanded, ensuring uninterrupted data availability since 2009. Additional higher resolution areas (30 m resolution) will be created for partner countries to lend themselves to different types of applications such as monitoring the health of specific crops in fields, more precise irrigation monitoring and scheduling, among others.