# Landscape Units

A Landscape Unit (LSU) is a collection of HRUs. It can be equivalent to a subbasin, a floodplain or upland unit, or a grid cell with multiple HRUs. LSUs are currently only used for summarizing landscape outputs. Two files are needed to define which HRUs are part of which LSU:&#x20;

* [ls\_unit.def](/io-docs/introduction-1/landscape-units/ls_unit.def.md) specifies which HRUs a LSU contains.
* [ls\_unit.ele](/io-docs/introduction-1/landscape-units/ls_unit.ele.md) lists all HRUs and their corresponding LSU and basin fractions.


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