WaPOR V2 quality assessment: technical report on the data quality of the WaPOR FAO database version 2

This document presents the results of a validation of the version-2 of the WaPOR database, produced by the FRAME consortium partners, eLEAF and VITO. The report summarises the work done by the validation partner (ITC-UTwente) to assess the quality of the new V2 core data components, currently used to estimate and derive agricultural water productivity for Africa and the Near East. WaPOR represents a comprehensive open access data portal that provides information on biomass productivity (with focus on food and agriculture production) and evapotranspiration (evaporative losses and water use) for Africa and the Near East in near real time covering the period from 1 January 2009 to date. WaPOR offers continuous data on a 10-day average basis across Africa and the Near East at three spatial resolutions. The continental level-1 data (250m) cover entire Africa and the Near East (L1). The national level-2 (100m) data cover 21 countries and four river basins (L2). The third level-3 data (30m) cover eight irrigation areas (L3). The quality assessment focused on the core data of the WaPOR database i.e., the evaporative loss components: plant transpiration (T), soil evaporation (E) and interception (I) combined in ETI, the net primary productivity – NPP, the total (TBP) and above ground biomass productivity (AGBP) and reference evapotranspiration – RET.

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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:water resources, agricultural water use, water availability, climate, precipitation, evapotranspiration, above ground biomass, water productivity, land cover, land classification, remote sensing, databases, quality controls, FAO, SDGs, Goal 2 Zero hunger, Goal 6 Clean water and sanitation,
Online Access:http://www.fao.org/3/cb2208en/CB2208EN.pdf
https://doi.org/10.4060/cb2208en
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