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Challenge

Build a STAC Agricultural Drought Biomass Loss Indexer

Process agricultural STAC Item asset references alongside simplified synthetic app records for crop stress to streamline claim preparation. Evaluate parcel-level vegetation anomaly flags against regional drought periods.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Process agricultural STAC Item asset references alongside simplified synthetic app records for crop stress to streamline claim preparation. Evaluate parcel-level vegetation anomaly flags against regional drought periods.

Agricultural Claims Specialist

Query public STAC Item catalogs over farm bounding boxes across the growing season.

Extract multispectral asset references and ingest simplified synthetic app records containing normalized vegetation anomaly values for the parcels.

Correlate biomass deficit time series against regional drought emergency records.

Generate a structured crop loss assessment dossier for agronomist review.

Streamlit parcel search console displaying satellite asset links, vegetation degradation curves, and drought period markers.

Use public Earth Search STAC API endpoints and local JSON files acting as simplified synthetic app records for parcel polygons and NDVI values. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

STAC specification Extract STAC Item assets, bbox boundaries, and datetime properties defined in STAC Item specification.

llamaindex, shapely, fastapi, pandas. LlamaIndex indexes temporal metadata and asset links from parsed STAC Items and synthetic crop stress records for fast retrieval. Hosted LLM with tool calling for structured claim dossier generation and evidence compilation.

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.

STAC Item geometry overlaps parcel boundaries exactly.

Computes vegetation deficit percentile relative to baseline within 5% tolerance using ingested synthetic records.

Outputs structured JSON dossier with asset URIs and anomaly flags.

```json [ { "input": { "parcel_id": "PARCEL-IA-882", "bbox": [ -93.5, 41.5, -93.4, 41.6 ], "stac_items": [ { "id": "S2A_20230715", "properties": { "datetime": "2023-07-15T10:30:00Z", "eo:cloud_cover": 2.1 }, "assets": { "ndvi": { "href": "https://storage.example.org/ndvi_20230715.tif" } } } ], "baseline_ndvi": 0.78, "observed_ndvi": 0.42 }, "expected_output": { "parcel_id": "PARCEL-IA-882", "anomaly_ratio": -0.46, "drought_stress_detected": true, "evidence_item_ids": [ "S2A_20230715" ], "dossier_status": "READY_FOR_ADJUSTER" } }, { "input": { "parcel_id": "PARCEL-NE-104", "bbox": [ -98.1, 40.8, -98, 40.9 ], "stac_items": [ { "id": "S2B_20230801", "properties": { "datetime": "2023-08-01T10:30:00Z", "eo:cloud_cover": 85 }, "assets": { "visual": { "href": "https://storage.example.org/rgb_cloudy.tif" } } } ], "baseline_ndvi": 0.72, "observed_ndvi": null }, "expected_output": { "parcel_id": "PARCEL-NE-104", "anomaly_ratio": null, "drought_stress_detected": false, "evidence_item_ids": [], "dossier_status": "INSUFFICIENT_CLEAR_SCENES" } } ] ```

Emphasizes that crop biomass indices serve as claim evidence preparation rather than automatic adjustment. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Emphasizes that crop biomass indices serve as claim evidence preparation rather than automatic adjustment. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

STAC Item geometry overlaps parcel boundaries exactly. Computes vegetation deficit percentile relative to baseline within 5% tolerance using ingested synthetic records. Outputs structured JSON dossier with asset URIs and anomaly flags.

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

Query public STAC Item catalogs over farm bounding boxes across the growing season. Extract multispectral asset references and ingest simplified synthetic app records containing normalized vegetation anomaly values for the parcels. Correlate biomass deficit time series against regional drought emergency records. Generate a structured crop loss assessment dossier for agronomist review.

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

STAC Item geometry overlaps parcel boundaries exactly. Computes vegetation deficit percentile relative to baseline within 5% tolerance using ingested synthetic records. Outputs structured JSON dossier with asset URIs and anomaly flags.

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

Streamlit parcel search console displaying satellite asset links, vegetation degradation curves, and drought period markers.

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

Emphasizes that crop biomass indices serve as claim evidence preparation rather than automatic adjustment.

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

  • Query public STAC Item catalogs over farm bounding boxes across the growing season.

  • Extract multispectral asset references and ingest simplified synthetic app records containing normalized vegetation anomaly values for the parcels.

  • Correlate biomass deficit time series against regional drought emergency records.

  • Generate a structured crop loss assessment dossier for agronomist review.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Use public Earth Search STAC API endpoints and local JSON files acting as simplified synthetic app records for parcel polygons and NDVI values. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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LlamaIndex

Data framework for LLM applications

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Query public STAC Item catalogs over farm bounding boxes across the growing season. Extract multispectral a...
  • STAC Item geometry overlaps parcel boundaries exactly. Computes vegetation deficit percentile relative to b...
  • Streamlit parcel search console displaying satellite asset links, vegetation degradation curves, and drough...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

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
  • LlamaIndex · 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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