Build a STAC Agricultural Drought Vegetative Loss Assessor
Quantify vegetation stress over commercial crop fields using multi-temporal STAC Catalog items. Compute vegetation anomaly percentiles across the growing season to assist in agricultural claim evidence preparation.
What you are building
The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.
Quantify vegetation stress over commercial crop fields using multi-temporal STAC Catalog items. Compute vegetation anomaly percentiles across the growing season to assist in agricultural claim evidence preparation.
Agricultural Claims Investigator
Ingest field parcel boundaries and historical normal NDVI reference curves.
Query STAC API for Sentinel-2 cloud-free Item collections over the target growing cycle.
Calculate parcel-level average NDVI and compute seasonal biomass deficit percentages.
Assemble an objective crop loss claim evidence report with direct STAC asset links.
Web interface displaying parcel NDVI time-series charts alongside thumbnails retrieved from STAC assets.
Access public STAC APIs for Sentinel-2 COGs (e.g., Earth Search) or load local mock STAC collection directories. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
STAC specification Interrogates STAC Item collections, bounding boxes, and asset links for multispectral bands as specified in STAC standard.
anthropic-claude, pystac-client, rasterio. Claude analyzes complex multi-temporal vegetation anomaly trends and synthesizes objective, structured claim evidence memos. Hosted Claude API for expert-level interpretation and structured summarization of seasonal crop vigor curves.
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.
Queries STAC Items matching parcel geometry and seasonal date range.
Calculates mean NDVI deficit compared to baseline expected reference value.
Formats output containing all parent STAC Collection IDs and asset hrefs.
```json [ { "input": { "_record_type": "simplified synthetic app record", "parcel_id": "PARCEL-KS-771", "crop_type": "Winter Wheat", "baseline_ndvi": 0.72, "stac_observations": [ { "item_id": "S2A_20230501", "mean_ndvi": 0.45 }, { "item_id": "S2A_20230515", "mean_ndvi": 0.42 } ] }, "expected_output": { "parcel_id": "PARCEL-KS-771", "mean_observed_ndvi": 0.435, "deficit_percentage": 39.58, "loss_evidence_grade": "SUBSTANTIAL_ANOMALY" } }, { "input": { "_record_type": "simplified synthetic app record", "parcel_id": "PARCEL-KS-772", "crop_type": "Winter Wheat", "baseline_ndvi": 0.7, "stac_observations": [] }, "expected_output": { "parcel_id": "PARCEL-KS-772", "mean_observed_ndvi": null, "deficit_percentage": null, "loss_evidence_grade": "NO_OBSERVATIONS" } } ] ```
Vegetative deficit reports are evidence preparation materials and do not constitute formal adjuster appraisal or claim settlement. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Vegetative deficit reports are evidence preparation materials and do not constitute formal adjuster appraisal or claim settlement. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Queries STAC Items matching parcel geometry and seasonal date range. Calculates mean NDVI deficit compared to baseline expected reference value. Formats output containing all parent STAC Collection IDs and asset hrefs.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.
Complete workflow
Ingest field parcel boundaries and historical normal NDVI reference curves. Query STAC API for Sentinel-2 cloud-free Item collections over the target growing cycle. Calculate parcel-level average NDVI and compute seasonal biomass deficit percentages. Assemble an objective crop loss claim evidence report with direct STAC asset links.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Queries STAC Items matching parcel geometry and seasonal date range. Calculates mean NDVI deficit compared to baseline expected reference value. Formats output containing all parent STAC Collection IDs and asset hrefs.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Web interface displaying parcel NDVI time-series charts alongside thumbnails retrieved from STAC assets.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Vegetative deficit reports are evidence preparation materials and do not constitute formal adjuster appraisal or claim settlement.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Ingest field parcel boundaries and historical normal NDVI reference curves.
Query STAC API for Sentinel-2 cloud-free Item collections over the target growing cycle.
Calculate parcel-level average NDVI and compute seasonal biomass deficit percentages.
Assemble an objective crop loss claim evidence report with direct STAC asset links.
Reference links and supporting material
Access public STAC APIs for Sentinel-2 COGs (e.g., Earth Search) or load local mock STAC collection directories. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
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- Ingest field parcel boundaries and historical normal NDVI reference curves. Query STAC API for Sentinel-2 c...
- Queries STAC Items matching parcel geometry and seasonal date range. Calculates mean NDVI deficit compared...
- Web interface displaying parcel NDVI time-series charts alongside thumbnails retrieved from STAC assets.
- 2 public reference cases
- 1 configured tool
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Configured tools
- Anthropic Claude · Optional
Evaluation contract
- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
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- 2 public reference cases
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