Multi-Source Flood database
Spatiotemporal analysis of heavy rain-induced flood occurrences in Germany using a novel event database approach The author detailed general processes to build a flood database and what are the caveats. In addition to regular event identification attributes they assigned other metrics to explore flood events associated with residents.
- Hot and cold spots of floods
They used a Moran’s Index value to identify the clustering feature of local community exposed to floods.
- Event binning
They aggregate density of events with a size of 100 km^2 to compare the flood density.