Monitoring and Evaluation
According to the Global Water Partnership, a strong monitoring and evaluation system has the potential to ensure that an IWRM strategy meets its main objective of fostering positive change, and also that the strategy can adapt to evolving needs and conditions. Resources available in this sub-theme include examples of performance indicators, technical methods of hydraulic monitoring, handbooks for appraisal of management systems, and other resources that support the wide variety of approaches for monitoring and evaluating water resources.
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Monitoring and Evaluation Resources
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This is the homepage for the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX), which is a platform for scientific collaboration, knowledge sharing and research for the Earth science community. Read more
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GlobalGoddard Space Flight Center's Land Information System
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Land Information System (LIS) is a flexible land surface modeling and data assimilation framework developed with the goal of integrating satellite- and ground-based observational data products and advanced land surface modeling techniques to produce optimal fields of land surface states and fluxes...Read more
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GlobalNASA Data and Information Services
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A corner stone of NASA is to provide open and free access of their data for both research and applications. The NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is a key core capability providing end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA's Earth science data from various...Read more
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GlobalNatural Disaster Program
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The goal of the Natural Disaster Program is to use NASA's capabilities in satellites, airborne, surface observations, higher-level derived data products and modeling and data analysis to improve natural disaster forecasting, mitigation and response. The NASA Disasters Program supports...Read more
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GlobalG-WADI & Climate Impacts on Water Resources
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This resource leverages World Bank Climate Change Impacts on Water and consumptive water loss (ET) for other WB regions and extends satellite precipitation and other measurements for water availability and drought assessment.Read more
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GlobalNear Real Time Flood and Landslide Monitoring, Prediction & Mapping
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The resource provides real-time global estimation of floods and landslides through use of satellite rainfall and hydrological models and algorithms running routinely, and same day mapping of flooded areas through automated analysis of MODIS data. It has potential for improvement in products through...Read more
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GlobalGlobal Land Data Assimilation and Drought Monitoring Using GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Observations
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This resource uses NASA Land Surface Modeling to downscale the coarse GRACE satellite data for water resources applications having 25 km grids and optimizes GLDAS for water availability and drought monitoring assistance globally. Drought monitoring is critical for developing country food...Read more
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