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Digital transformation in action
Water for Irrigation (WaFIRR) mobile application for irrigation management and scheduling in Jordan (iOS and Android) Powered by the 1 000 Digital Villages Initiative, the WaFIRR application for Jordan will be based on both the weather station in the Jordan Valley and Water Productivity Open-access Portal (WaPOR) to support farmers’ daily decisions on water management, assisting them to achieve efficient and productive irrigation management. It considers water quality, irrigation system and planting date when suggesting irrigation scheduling and will be integrated with the Jordan Integrated Agricultural Management Information System (JIAMIS) Farmer Registry and the National Agriculture Research Center (NARC) E-Lab, Jordan. The framework of the application and data for weather, crops and equations will be provided by NARC experts. Remote sensing data will be available through an open access data portal (WaPOR).
Two types of data will be collected to design and develop WaFIRR:
• data collected from the user – information about farms, crops and irrigation systems in order to estimate the daily water requirement for each crop; and • data collected from either the weather station or through the remotely sensed data portal (WaPOR). The application will process all data and send the results back to users as a notification with a daily crop water requirement and the irrigated hours required (daily or scheduled), based on their irrigation system.
Gridded Livestock of the World v4 (GLW 4)
The most up-to-date version of GLW 4 for the reference year 2015, calculated as head/km² for cattle s , sheep s , goats, buffaloes, horses, pigs, chicken s and ducks, with global extent, approximate resolution 10 km, was published and integrated with several applications this year.
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