• Modeling Capabilities
  • Interactive Watershed Creation

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Load Watershed based on location and model scale	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Import DEM	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Burn stream network	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Stream threshold selection	>1% of total grids	>1% of total grids	User selected	User selected
      Select multiple outlets	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Import USGS gaugaging stations as outlets	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Import Soil Type	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Import Land Use	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Calculate Slope Percentages	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Merge smaller subbasins	✔	✔	✔	✔
      HRU creation method Multi options	Multi options	Multi options	Multi options	Multi options
      Number of HRUs No limitations	No limitations	No limitations	No limitations	No limitations
      Download topographic/HRU/soil/slope report	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Precipitation Modeling

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Historical Events (Observed Precip. Events)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Future Events (Projected Precip. From Climate Models)	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Evapotranspiration Modeling

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Evaporation and Plant Transpiration (Evapotranspiration) Modeling - Based on Yemperature, Relative Humidity, Solar Radiation, and Wind Speed	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Infiltration Modeling

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Infiltration Modeling - Based on Curve Number Method or Green-Ampt Model	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Runoff and Stream Routing Modeling

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Surface runoff modeling	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Lateral (soil zone) runoff modeling	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Stream Routing using Manning's equatoin, and varaiable or Muskingum routing method	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Groundwater Modeling

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Shallow aquifer dynamics / water balance modeling	--	--	✔	✔
      Deep aquifer dynamics / water balance modeling	--	--	✔	✔

  • Reservoir / Pond Modeling

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Reservoir operations modeling and pond strorage modeling	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Water Quality Modeling

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Nutrient cycling, pesticides, fertilizers, organic matter	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Interactively Edit SWAT input Parameters

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Edit watershed level input files	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Edit subbasin level input files	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Edit HRU level input files	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Add Input Sources

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Point sources (water quanity, water quality)	--	✔	✔	✔
      Reservoirs	--	✔	✔	✔

  • Land use update

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Update landuse during simulation	--	✔	✔	✔

  • Model simulation

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Simulation length	5 years	10 years	30 year	30 year

  • Manual Model Calibration

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Single-parameter (one-at-a-time) Sensitivity Analyisis	✔	✔	✔	✔
      On-the-fly calculation and plotting of statistical indicators	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Automated Model Calibration

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Multi-parameter model optimization using the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Number of stations	1	1	Multiple	Multiple
      Total years	10 years	10 years	User defined	User defined
      Water quality calibration	--	--	✔	✔
      Poulation size	10	20	50	50
      Number of generations	5	10	50	50

  • Consituent Load Estimator

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Embedded USGS LOAD ESTimator (LOADEST) program for esimating constiuent loads in streams and rivers	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Export to Groundwater Models

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Create river file for Groundwater modeling in IGW-NET	Annual/cell size 50	Annual/cell size 50	Annual/transient/long-term	Annual/transient/long-term
      Create recharge rasters compatiable as input to groundwater model in IGW-NET	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Model Import

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Load existing SWAT model from SwaNET	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Load existing SWAT model from elsewhere	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Load pre-processed SWAT models	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Server File Management

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Save SwaNET Model file to local computer	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Saved models on server	1 (last model)	1 (last model)	1 (last model)	1 (last model)
      Max. User Folder Size Limit -	100 MB	1 GB	50 GB	Unlimited

• Visualization Capabilities
  • Background Maps

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Google Maps Road, Terrain, Satelitte, Hybrid Layers; Bing Maps	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Pre-simulation Mapping of Model Input & Calibration Data

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Interactive Mapping of Web Mapping Services (WMS) or Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Map-based Visualization of SwaNET Model

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Map-based Model Visualization (Inputs and outputs)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Subbasin Based Mapping	--	✔	✔	✔
      Reach Based Mapping	--	✔	✔	✔

  • 3D Visualization

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      3D Textures (e.g., Land Surface Topography)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      3D Enclosures (Model Surfaces Along Sides and Flat Bottom or Aquifer Bottom)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      3D streams and subbasin boundaries	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Land Use, DEM, and Soil Map Overlays ("Draping")	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Map-image Overlays (Model Input / Output Map Draping)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Local File Overlays (User Uploaded Image)	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Model Visual Analytics

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Pie/Bar Charts of watershed level outputs	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Time series visualization (average or total amounts over time)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Subbasin based time series	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Reach based time series	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Watershed-level time-series	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Water balance Visualization

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Conceptual Water Balance Diagrams - Annotated with Average Simulated Fluxes Over Simulation Period or Selected Time Period	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Overland flow water balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Stream Water balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Reservoir water balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Shallow Aquifer Water Balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Deep Aquifer Water Balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Transient Water Balanc charts Line graphs of Daily, Monthly, or Yearly Fluxes Over Simulation Period or Selected Period	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Overland Flow Water Balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Stream Water Balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Reservoir Water Balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Shallow Aquifer Water Balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Deep Aquifer Water Balance	✔	✔	✔	✔
      System Topology Charts (Sankey diagrams)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Watershed-level (Entire Model) Sankey Diagram	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Subbasin-level Sankey Diagram	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Flood mapping

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Flood Hazard Index mapping	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Flood Frequency Mapping	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Flood Reoccurence Mapping	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Downloadable Images

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Download in-platform Images/plotsto local machine	Includes M4W logo	Includes M4W logo	No logo	No logo

• Data Capabilities
  • Web Data Services for Big Data

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Big Data Published as Web Data Services - Web-based data/map Visualization and Model Building	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Direct Model-Data Linkages

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Watershed Boundary Extraction Based on Location and Scale of Interest	✔	✔	✔	✔
      DEM data Extraction	✔	✔	✔	✔
      DEM Upload Size	20 MB	50 MB	200 MB	200 MB
      DEM Download	90m and above	90m and above	All resolutions available	All available
      DEM Use	1000x1000 pixels	2000x2000 pixels	10000x10000 pixels	10000x10000 pixels
      Land Use Data Extraction	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Land Use Map Upload Size	20 MB	50 MB	200 MB	200 MB
      Land Use Map Download	90m and above	90m and above	All available	All available
      Land Use Map Use	1000x1000 pixels	2000x2000 pixels	10000x10000 pixels	10000x10000 pixels
      Soil Data Extraction	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Soil Map Upload Size	20 MB	50 MB	200 MB	200 MB
      Soil Map Download	90m and above	90m and above	All available	All available
      Soil Map Use	1000x1000 pixels	2000x2000 pixels	10000x10000 pixels	10000x10000 pixels
      Climate Data Extraction (Historical/Current/Future)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      NOAA Climate Data Extraction (Observed) - US only	1 station	5 stations	User selected	User selected
      CFSR (Climate Forecast System Reanalysis) Cliamte Data Extraction - Global	1 station	5 stations	User selected	User selected
      PRISM Climate Data - US only	--	5 stations	User selected	User selected
      CMIP6 Data (Historical and Future Projections) - Global	5 years	10 years	User selected	User selected

  • Sensor Data Extraction

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Historical and Realtime/Current Water Levels (stages) and/or Flow Rate from USGS Monitoring stream gaging stations (USA) or Environment Canada National Hydrometric Data Network	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • Generic Web Data Services Importer

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Transfter WFS Layers (Vector Data) as Watershed from DataNET to SwaNET	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Transfter WCS Layers (Raster Data) as Input from DataNET to SwaNET	✔	✔	✔	✔

• AI Capabilities (free)
  • AI Powered Analytics, Insights, Reporting and Publication (coming soon)

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      AI-generated Reports and Presentation Model Summaries, Detailed Descriptionns, Captioned figures	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Automated Model Parameter Table Generation	--	✔	✔	✔
      On-demand Model Run-time Log Files Access	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Sub-basin based attribute tables/summaries	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Print (download) simulation output files	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Instantly Publish SwaNET models, reports, and/or data, etc to Global Model Network (see below)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Save/Load SwaNET 3D visualizations to/from User Folder	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • AI Powered Water Sustainability Learning Center (coming soon)

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Watershed Science AI-Assistant (AI Chat) Trained to engineering and scientific theory, case studies, open-source textbooks, etc.	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Case Study Gallery - Implementations & Applications of SwaNET	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • AI Powered Water Sustainability Observatory Network (coming soon)

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      Map Interface of Published Cyber-enabled Observatories (CEOs) - SwaNET models, Input/Output D, Reports, Graphics, Videos, Discussion, etc.	✔	✔	✔	✔
      AI-powered Search / Query/ Filter tools, Find models, Data, Reports, People etc …	✔	✔	✔	✔
      View CEO details Access Reports, Model Descriptions, Parameter Tables, Graphics, Videos	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Load Published Models Directly into SwaNET	✔	✔	✔	✔

  • AI Powered Platform Support

    • Feature / Option	FREE	BASIC	ADVANCED	ULTIMATE
      M4W Software and Modeling AI-Assistant (AI Chat)	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Realtime, Situational Help Pages	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Quick Tutorials	✔	✔	✔	✔
      Technical Reference Docs	✔	✔	✔	✔