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Thursday 25. of November 2010

Water accounting in the Okavango delta

The FAO is currently executing the project "Coping with water scarcity - The role of agriculture" which includes the development of a general methodology for a Water Audit to be applied on country or river basin level in Africa....

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Monday 22. of November 2010

Assessment of irrigation performance in Mali

The performance of the Office du Niger irrigation system was assessed based on different satellite derived indicators. Using satellite data, weak performing spots in the system could be identified allowing measures to be taken to...

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Wednesday 22. of September 2010

SEBAL NA tracks real-time water consumption of water by crops, cities and natural ecosystems

The WaterWatch spinoff SEBAL NA recently gained news attention with the real-time tracking of water consumption by crops, cities and natural ecosystems in California's Central Valley using satellite data. In close collaboration...

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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/