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Record W4414723761 · doi:10.11159/ijci.2025.014

Analysis of Historical Moisture Content for Ash Dam Facility in South Africa

2025· article· en· W4414723761 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Rebecca Alowo, Daphine Achiro, Innocent Musonda, A. Were, Adetayo Onososen, Funeka Grootboom

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Civil Infrastructure · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGeotechnical Engineering and Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWater contentMoistureHydrology (agriculture)Surface runoff

Abstract

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This article presents a three-year investigation of moisture content conducted at the Duvha Ash Dam Facility to pinpoint areas exhibiting rising moisture content values through satellite technology.An elevation in moisture content levels may signify inadequate drainage.A historical study aids in pinpointing areas that have seen elevated moisture levels, which may be corroborated with historical data pertaining to the state of the ash dam plant.The researchers employed Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) to measure soil moisture.The SMAP mission is an orbital observatory that quantifies the water content in the surface soil globally.Soil moisture is a crucial metric for meteorological forecasting, assessing drainage failures, and predicting droughts and floods.The researchers employed SMAP radiometers to quantify radiation data for the calculation of water content.The results indicated that the soil moisture at the ash dam facility is 0.09 cm/cm.Furthermore, soil moisture peaks throughout the summer months near the ash dam site.Soil moisture is diminished throughout the cold months.Monitoring soil moisture throughout the hot months is essential.In conclusion, SMAP possesses the capability to efficiently cover extensive spatial regions at minimal expense, facilitates regular temporal measurements, and offers substantial historical data archives for conducting retrospective analyses.Nonetheless, this technology has not yet been embraced by the South African business.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.736
Threshold uncertainty score0.432

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.215 · 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

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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