Global Drought Map is a cloud-native platform for exploring global drought conditions from 1980 to today. Visualise SPI and SPEI drought indices on an interactive map powered by H3 hexagons, DuckDB WASM, Parquet, and Cloudflare R2.
Alper Dincer is a UK-based geospatial engineer, entrepreneur, and climate-tech innovator working at the intersection of Earth observation, spatial analytics, and environmental decision support. He is the creator of Global Drought Map, a cloud-native platform designed to make global drought conditions easier to explore, understand, and communicate through interactive geospatial visualisation.
He is also the founder of Drought.UK, a UK-focused drought monitoring initiative that brings together rainfall anomalies, drought indicators, and spatial risk insights in an accessible digital format. Alongside these projects, he serves as Co-Founder and CTO of Climingo, a climate-tech venture focused on independent weather and climate data evaluation, developed with support from Carbon13, the Cambridge-based venture builder for climate innovation.
His work focuses on transforming large-scale climate and environmental datasets into practical tools for governments, researchers, international organisations, and the wider public. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to drought monitoring and early warning initiatives in multiple regions, including Turkey's national drought monitoring efforts, the UNDP Madagascar drought dashboard, and geospatial work supporting UNICEF Somalia. These experiences helped shape the vision behind Global Drought Map and Drought.UK: technically modern platforms that combine drought science with scalable geospatial engineering to make environmental intelligence more understandable and more actionable.
Global Drought Map reflects Alper Dincer's interest in next-generation geospatial infrastructure. The platform uses technologies such as H3 hexagons, DuckDB WASM, Parquet, Cloudflare R2, Node.js, and browser-based analytics to deliver global drought intelligence in a fast, accessible, and visually intuitive way. This combination of scientific drought indicators with modern cloud-native architecture demonstrates a distinctive contribution in digital climate infrastructure, especially in making complex climate analytics available through open, interactive, and globally scalable web tools.
Alongside building products, Alper Dincer is active in the wider geospatial and climate-tech community through writing, technical communication, and venture development. His inclusion in the GEO100 2025 recognised his contribution as a geospatial technologist and climate-tech entrepreneur in the UK sector. He is also part of the Carbon13 ecosystem through Climingo, where he is helping develop climate-focused technology with commercial and societal relevance. His work is centred on one core idea: turning advanced geospatial and climate data systems into practical tools with real-world impact.