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Record W7119508209 · doi:10.64903/1480-6800-28.3-4.313

Spatial Modeling of the Al-Ula Basin in the Medina Region, Saudi Arabia Using GIS

2025· article· W7119508209 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Saleh Alhammad

Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicGroundwater and Watershed Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStructural basinGeographic information systemHydrology (agriculture)Drainage basinHydrological modellingSpatial analysis

Abstract

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GIS techniques change the General Approach to the validation of hydrological models considerably. These techniques have facilitated accurate verification and calculation of all phenomena used to describe the hydrologic basins. The study area consists of a group of valleys affecting Al-Ula city, and the data modelling was presented using the relational method, as an integrated network of geographical phenomena that provides a simpler way to display the concerned modeling, which enables understanding the geographical data when processing and spatially representing the basins. The study identified the cadastral characteristics of the study area; the total basin area was approximately 988,33 km 2 , while the water basins ranged from 32,23 km 2 to 333,93 km 2 . After in-depth analysis of the topographic variables, the study found that the steepest basin in the study area was the B1 basin at about 12.65%, while the B5 basin was the lowest basin at 9.46%, and the lowest peak flow in the water network was about 105.51 m 3 /s in the B1 basin due to short length of watercourses; this means that the basin has not reached a wave-cut activity as it continues to expand. The maximum peak flow in the water network reached 369.82 m 3 /s in basin B5, which may help increase the waterways in the basin; this, in turn, is followed by increased risks of runoff. The study increasingly recommended the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to enhance land capabilities, by interpreting the cadastral, topographic and hydrological variables of the basins in the study area. Therefore, GIS as a powerful spatial system could be used to develop and calibrate models and spatially present their results.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.344
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.005
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.218 · 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.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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