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Water Depth Measurements for Rangeland Ponds in the Ferlo Region of Senegal


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Created: Jun 10, 2025 at 1:39 a.m. (UTC)
Last updated: Jun 24, 2025 at 12:20 p.m. (UTC)
Published date: Jun 24, 2025 at 12:20 p.m. (UTC)
DOI: 10.4211/hs.cf7fda39073543efbf3b8de7ae17d3f4
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Abstract

The Ferlo region of Senegal is a rangeland area where ephemeral ponds are an important source of water for watering livestock. Staff gauges were installed in 12 ponds in the Ferlo region of Senegal. The gauges were installed at the approximate deepest point of each pond. Data enumerators collected pond depth measurements over the 2022 and 2023 rainy season, until each pond dried up. Data were collected approximately every two weeks from July to December 2022 and approximately every six days from June to December 2023. These data consist of a csv file containing: date that measurement was collected ("date", YYYY-mm-dd), measured water depth ("depth", meters), pond name ("pond"), latitude of staff gauge ("latitude", degree north WGS84), and longitude of staff gauge ("longitude", degree east WGS84).

Data collection was supported by the following funding sources:
- NASA Applied Sciences Program under the Water Resource Program, grant # 80NSSC22K0930 entitled “Earth Observation-Based Monitoring and Forecasting of Rangeland Water Resources” and NASA Harvest Consortium, grant # 80NSSC17K0625 entitled “NASA Harvest: NASA's Global Food Security and Agriculture Consortium.”
- Azione contro la Fame Italia foundation, through the project "Western Sahelian Pastoral Early Warning System - PEWS - A tool towards resilience to climate change and climate variability.”

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Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Ferlo, Senegal
North Latitude
16.5000°
East Longitude
-13.5000°
South Latitude
14.2500°
West Longitude
-15.6000°

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This resource is referenced by Kimberly Slinski, Gabriel Senay, Adoum Alkhalil, Shraddhanand Shukla, Amy Mcnally, James Rowland, Erwann Fillol, Soni Yatheendradas, Chris Funk, Andrew Hoell and Michael Jasinski, "In Situ, Modeled, and Earth Observation Monitoring of Surface Water Availability in West African Rangelands", 2025, Front. Water Sec. Water and Hydrocomplexity, Volume 7, doi: 10.3389/frwa.2025.1320010, https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2025.1320010

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Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
NASA Earth Science Earth Observation-Based Monitoring and Forecasting of Rangeland Water Resources 80NSSC22K0930
Azione contro la Fame Italia foundation Western Sahelian Pastoral Early Warning System - PEWS - A tool towards resilience to climate change and climate variability

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Slinski, K., E. Fillol, S. Yatheendradas (2025). Water Depth Measurements for Rangeland Ponds in the Ferlo Region of Senegal, HydroShare, https://doi.org/10.4211/hs.cf7fda39073543efbf3b8de7ae17d3f4

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