Land Use Land Cover (LULC) change is widely recognised as one of the most important factors impacting the hydrological response of river basins. SWAT+, the latest version of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool, has been used extensively to assess the hydrological impacts of LULC change. However, the process of making and assessing such changes in SWAT+ is often cumbersome and non-intuitive, thereby reducing its usability amongst a wider pool of applied users. We address this issue by developing a user-friendly toolkit, Land Use Change SWAT + Toolkit (LUCST), that will: (1) allow the end-user to define various LULC change scenarios in their study catchment, (2) run the SWAT+ model with the specified LULC changes, and (3) enable interactive visualisation of the different SWAT+ output variables. A good System Usability Score (79.8) and positive feedback from end-users promises the potential for adopting LUCST in future LULC change studies.

Video abstract

https://youtu.be/QygBidYr4cQ.

中文翻译：

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LUCST：在 SWAT+ 中用于土地利用土地覆盖变化评估的新工具包，以支持洪水管理决策

土地利用土地覆盖（LULC）变化被广泛认为是影响流域水文响应的最重要因素之一。SWAT+ 是最新版本的土壤和水评估工具，已被广泛用于评估 LULC 变化的水文影响。但是，在 SWAT+ 中进行和评估此类更改的过程通常很麻烦且不直观，从而降低了其在更广泛的应用用户群中的可用性。我们通过开发一个用户友好的工具包来解决这个问题，土地利用变化 SWAT + 工具包 (LUCST)，它将：(1) 允许最终用户在他们的研究流域中定义各种 LULC 变化场景，(2) 运行 SWAT+具有指定 LULC 变化的模型，以及 (3) 启用不同 SWAT+ 输出变量的交互式可视化。良好的系统可用性得分（79.

视频摘要

https://youtu.be/QygBidYr4cQ。