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Challenge

Build a Coastal Digital Elevation Asset Matcher for Inundation Risk

Cross-reference coastal digital elevation asset links from STAC collections against simplified commercial property elevation records. Quantify exposure to projected sea level inundation to formulate municipal adaptation plans.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Cross-reference coastal digital elevation asset links from STAC collections against simplified commercial property elevation records. Quantify exposure to projected sea level inundation to formulate municipal adaptation plans.

Coastal Infrastructure Engineer

Traverse STAC Collection links to discover digital elevation model (DEM) GeoTIFF asset references.

Ingest explicitly simplified structural elevation records for high-value coastal facility coordinates.

Calculate structural ground elevation margins against tidal surge and erosion hazard planes.

Synthesize physical asset vulnerability scorecards for municipal infrastructure adaptation grants.

REST API exposing endpoints to submit property elevation records and retrieve inundation vulnerability scorecards.

Utilize public STAC catalog endpoints for metadata and mock JSON datasets representing explicitly simplified commercial property elevation records. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

STAC specification Parse STAC Collection spatial extents, Item assets, and link relations following STAC specification.

qdrant, fastapi, pydantic. Qdrant stores and searches multidimensional hazard embeddings across thousands of coastal parcels. Hosted reasoning model for generating narrative coastal engineering adaptation plans.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Parses STAC Item asset links for digital elevation assets correctly.

Computes net freeboard margin by subtracting tidal flood levels from asset base elevations.

Flags assets with a freeboard margin under 0.6 meters as critical exposure.

```json [ { "input": { "asset_id": "PUMP-STATION-03", "coordinates": [ -74.02, 40.71 ], "asset_base_elevation_m": 1.85, "projected_storm_surge_m": 2.1, "stac_item_id": "DEM_NY_HARBOR_2022" }, "expected_output": { "asset_id": "PUMP-STATION-03", "freeboard_margin_m": -0.25, "inundation_risk": "CRITICAL_OVERTOPPING", "adaptation_recommendation": "CONSTRUCT_DRY_FLOODPROOF_PERIMETER_WALL" } }, { "input": { "asset_id": "SUBSTATION-EAST", "coordinates": [ -74.01, 40.72 ], "asset_base_elevation_m": 4.5, "projected_storm_surge_m": 2.1, "stac_item_id": "DEM_NY_HARBOR_2022" }, "expected_output": { "asset_id": "SUBSTATION-EAST", "freeboard_margin_m": 2.4, "inundation_risk": "MINIMAL_EXPOSURE", "adaptation_recommendation": "MONITOR_SEASONAL_EROSION_RATES" } } ] ```

Adaptation plans represent advisory engineering proposals rather than certified architectural drawings. Examples are explicitly simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Adaptation plans represent advisory engineering proposals rather than certified architectural drawings. Examples are explicitly simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Parses STAC Item asset links for digital elevation assets correctly. Computes net freeboard margin by subtracting tidal flood levels from asset base elevations. Flags assets with a freeboard margin under 0.6 meters as critical exposure.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Traverse STAC Collection links to discover digital elevation model (DEM) GeoTIFF asset references. Ingest explicitly simplified structural elevation records for high-value coastal facility coordinates. Calculate structural ground elevation margins against tidal surge and erosion hazard planes. Synthesize physical asset vulnerability scorecards for municipal infrastructure adaptation grants.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Parses STAC Item asset links for digital elevation assets correctly. Computes net freeboard margin by subtracting tidal flood levels from asset base elevations. Flags assets with a freeboard margin under 0.6 meters as critical exposure.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

REST API exposing endpoints to submit property elevation records and retrieve inundation vulnerability scorecards.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Adaptation plans represent advisory engineering proposals rather than certified architectural drawings. Examples are explicitly simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Traverse STAC Collection links to discover digital elevation model (DEM) GeoTIFF asset references.

  • Ingest explicitly simplified structural elevation records for high-value coastal facility coordinates.

  • Calculate structural ground elevation margins against tidal surge and erosion hazard planes.

  • Synthesize physical asset vulnerability scorecards for municipal infrastructure adaptation grants.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Utilize public STAC catalog endpoints for metadata and mock JSON datasets representing explicitly simplified commercial property elevation records. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Qdrant

Open-source vector database.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Traverse STAC Collection links to discover digital elevation model (DEM) GeoTIFF asset references. Ingest e...
  • Parses STAC Item asset links for digital elevation assets correctly. Computes net freeboard margin by subtr...
  • REST API exposing endpoints to submit property elevation records and retrieve inundation vulnerability scor...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Qdrant · Optional
Observation
  • Qdrant · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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