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FAO WaPOR v3 (FAO)

Africa and Near East ET and water productivity at 100m — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Commercial use permitted; redistributed derivatives carry the same SA license.

What this is

FAO WaPOR v3 delivers remote-sensing evapotranspiration, biomass, and water productivity for Africa and the Near East at resolutions down to 100m. Accessed via API and the FAO WaPOR download portal. License: WaPOR v3 is CC-BY-SA-4.0 at catalog level; some layers are CC-BY-4.0. Both permit commercial use; share-alike applies only when you redistribute a derivative. (v1/v2 were CC-BY-NC-SA — v3 dropped the NC clause.) Verify the per-layer license on the FAO portal at ingest.

Why we surface it

OpenET covers CONUS. WaPOR covers the regions where water productivity questions are most urgent.

What you can do with it

Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.

Internal / individual use
Free to use internally for anything. Share-alike only wakes up when you redistribute.
Redistribute the data
Fine to redistribute. You must credit the source AND release it under the same share-alike license — keep it as open as you got it.
Republish a derivative
Build on it and republish freely. You must credit the source AND license your derivative under the same share-alike terms.
Build into a private product
Share-alike blocks this. You can't fold this into a closed or proprietary product — anything built on it has to stay under the same open license.

This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.

○ Planned

Not in the map yet — this source is on the V1 backlog. Schema, sample, and citation slots fill in once the layer ships.

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