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QSWAT and MWSWAT is very similar in terms of interface design although they are programmed with different programming languages and in different GIS platform. In this video, these two SWAT tools are compared side-by-side to demonstrate the similarity. The guess is they are from the same development team. MWSWAT is developed first and QSWAT follows …

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Most of the SWAT users use ArcSWAT, QSWAT or MWSWAT to create their models. The SWAT projects created with these tools could be opened directly in SWAT viewer. If you uses other tools, you could also manually create a SWAT project and open in SWAT viewer. In this video, I will talk about how to …

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There are many ways to see SWAT outputs. Spatial visualization shows the model results on a map. It will clearly show how the selected results are distributed across subbasins or reaches. It’s very useful to pinpoint the hotspots in the watershed. In this video, we will talk about how to do the spatial visualization with …

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The SWAT Viewer supports any modified SWAT versions so you can analyze the results and compare with other versions. This video shows you the steps to add your own modified version to the viewer. The viewer version code is not on Github for now. Please feel free to contact me. I will be more than …

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A great thing about SWAT is that it’s open source. The algorithms could be modified to best fit the study areas. For a modified version, it’s important to demonstrate the effectiveness by comparing with the base version. The SWAT Viewer gives you all the tools to compare any two version in different angles. In this …

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In some research, the SWAT models are created differently. Only the model input files and some of the shapefiles are available. In this case, you could manually create the swat project and use the SWAT viewer. The video will show you how to do that. For the subbasin and reach shapefile, make sure the subbasin …

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SWAT projects created by ArcSWAT and QSWAT shares the same structure. In this video, I talked about the structure and how the SWAT Viewer use the information to run the model and show the model result on a map. If you are not using ArcSWAT or QSWAT to create your model, you still could use …

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Some SWAT users have experienced the input conversion error when running the SWAT model. The video below will show you what causes this error and how to fix it.

It has been requested to export the map to a file. Here it is:) Simply choose the Export Map menu from the map context menu (shown below). The map will be saved to a png file. Enjoy this function with version 0.1.0.1.