3 papers
cs.AI2026
WaterCopilot: An AI-Driven Virtual Assistant for Water Management
Keerththanan Vickneswaran, Mariangel Garcia Andarcia, Hugo Retief +2
Sustainable water resource management in transboundary river basins is challenged by fragmented data, limited real-time access, and the complexity of integrating diverse informatio…
cs.CV2025
Automated river gauge plate reading using a hybrid object detection and generative AI framework in the Limpopo River Basin
Kayathri Vigneswaran, Hugo Retief, Jai Clifford Holmes +2
Accurate and continuous monitoring of river water levels is essential for flood forecasting, water resource management, and ecological protection. Traditional hydrological observat…
cs.LG2025
Satellite-Surface-Area Machine-Learning Models for Reservoir Storage Estimation: Regime-Sensitive Evaluation and Operational Deployment at Loskop Dam, South Africa
Hugo Retief, Kayathri, Vigneswaran +3
Reliable daily estimates of reservoir storage are pivotal for water allocation and drought response decisions in semiarid regions. Conventional rating curves at Loskop Dam, the pri…