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Tuesday 26. of January 2010

Water watchers on NASA’s Image of the Day

The NASA Earth Observatory's Image of the Day feature shows the highlights in satellite technology. On January 26, 2010, they featured a map of water use on Idaho’s Snake River Plain.

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Tuesday 19. of January 2010

WaterWatch activity in the Sandveld region, South Africa

The South African potato magazine Chips recently featured an article on the WaterWatch project in the Sandveld region.

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Monday 11. of January 2010

Enforced management team at WaterWatch

With the start of 2010 Peter Droogers joins WaterWatch as operational manager and senior hydrologist.

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Remote sensing services for quantifying water management

WaterWatch is a scientific advisory firm that diagnoses historic and current water management practices across large irrigated river basins by means of satellite measurements. We help in providing key data for integrated water and environmental resources plans in regions where complete and accessible data records are scarce.

Our projects focus on:

  • crop water productivity or water use efficiency (kg/m3 and $/m3)
  • irrigation and drainage performance, including a socio-economic dimension
  • agricultural and ecological drought analysis
  • water conservation and water savings (i.e. ET reduction)
  • groundwater management and aquifer restoration plans
  • access to water resources in rural areas
  • water use planning

WaterWatch is the original developer and intellectual owner of Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL). SEBAL computes actual, potential and reference evapotranspiration, root zone soil moisture and biomass growth from low resolution (1 km) and high resolution (30 m) satellite images with minimum inputs.

WaterWatch executes projects in Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, India, Iran, Kazahstan, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunesia, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Yemen.

For more information about our subsidiary in the United States (SNA Inc.) please visit Sebal.us/