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Record W4412754766 · doi:10.11159/iccste25.447

Historical Moisture Content Analysis for Ash Dam Facility in South Africa

2025· article· en· W4412754766 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Rebecca Alowo, Daphine Achiro, Innocent Musonda, A. Were, Adetayo Onososen, Funeka Grootboom

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the International Conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTunneling and Rock Mechanics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWater contentEnvironmental scienceMoistureGeologyGeotechnical engineeringGeographyMeteorology

Abstract

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This article articulates a three-year moisture content analysis carried out at the Duvha Ash Dam Facility to identify locations with increasing moisture content values using satellite technology.An increase in moisture content values can be an indicator of failed drainage.For this reason, a historical analysis helps identify locations that have suffered from high moisture content, and this can be validated against historical data held regarding the condition of the ash dam facility.In terms of methodology, the researchers using Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) measured soil moisture.The SMAP mission is an orbiting observatory that measures the amount of water in the surface soil everywhere on Earth.Soil moisture is an important measurement for weather forecasting, failed drainage, drought and flood predictions.The researchers used SMAP radiometers to measure radiation data to calculate water content.The findings were that soil moisture on the ash dam facility stands at 0.09 cm3/cm3.In addition, soil moisture is highest during the summer months at the ash dam facility.During the winter months the soil moisture is low.This makes monitoring of soil moisture generally during the summer months critical.In conclusion SMAP has the advantage of effectively covering large spatial areas at low cost, a regular acquisition of measures over time, and the availability of large historical data archives to perform retrospective studies.However, this technology is yet to be adopted by the South African industry.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.259
Threshold uncertainty score0.370

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.191 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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