Han River to be managed by the "Digital Twin" as ’Digital Garam+’ will be expanded to five major rivers by 2026

The "Water Management Digital Twin" of the five major rivers, including the Han River, will be built by 2026.

The Korea Water Resources Corporation(K-water) has established 'Digital GARAM+', a dam-stream digital twin system that can simulate flood effects across the basin in advance in the same three-dimensional virtual world as in the real world and is introducing it to dam operation.

The Korea Water Resources Corporation has prepared a pilot project for the Seomjingang River basin and has applied it to practice this year.

In connection with this, the Ministry of Environment plans to expand and build the dam-stream digital twin water management platform project to the five major rivers (Han River, Nakdonggang River, Geumgang River, Yeongsangang River, and Seomjingang River) by 2026.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Environment Han, Hwa-jin visited the Korea Water Resources Corporation's water management complete situation room in Daejeon in the afternoon on August 11 to check the flood control situation of multi-purpose dams nationwide, including the discharge of dams in response to torrential rains, as well as the status of the latest technology-based dam-river digital twin.

An official from the Ministry of Environment said, "If the dam-river digital twin is established, it will be used for decision-making for optimal dam-river operation in the event of actual floodings, such as simulating flood situations based on big data and AI in a three-dimensional virtual space."

Reported by Smart City Today