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Wednesday 12. of January 2011

GrapeLook: a new operational project in South Africa

www.GrapeLook.co.za is a new website that assists farmers and governmental authorities with the daily management of scarce irrigation water resources and nitrogen applications in the Western Cape. GrapeLook is based on satellite...

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Tuesday 14. of December 2010

Mapping of global water productivity for the FAO

Wim Bastiaanssen has recently finished a project for the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, based in Rome, in which the water productivity for three major staple crops is mapped on a global scale.

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Tuesday 07. of December 2010

WaterWatch quantifies ground water abstraction in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

WaterWatch will assist the Ministry of Water and Electricity of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in quantifying the groundwater abstraction caused by irrigation. This quantification benefits the UNDP project for the development of an...

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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/