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Challenge

Build a STAC Agricultural Frost Parametric Verifier

Correlate post-freeze multispectral satellite imagery discovered via STAC catalogs against local cold snap declarations. Fetch assets to validate parametric agricultural crop damage criteria while accounting for cloud-obscured pixel uncertainty.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Correlate post-freeze multispectral satellite imagery discovered via STAC catalogs against local cold snap declarations. Fetch assets to validate parametric agricultural crop damage criteria while accounting for cloud-obscured pixel uncertainty.

Crop Insurance Verification Specialist

Query STAC collections for post-freeze Sentinel-2 and Landsat surface reflectance scenes.

Filter STAC items by cloud cover metadata and download assets to compute vegetation stress indices.

Cross-reference spatial crop anomaly boundaries with agricultural parcel registers using geographic tools.

Generate a verified parametric frost loss assessment with observation confidence bounds based on cloud interference.

Dual-pane dashboard showing downloaded optical imagery, masked cloud layers, and parametric trigger verification matrices.

Query public Earth observation STAC APIs (such as Earth Search) for imagery URLs. Store sample parcel boundaries in local GeoJSON files. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

STAC specification Queries STAC API to locate relevant Items, inspects cloud cover properties, and utilizes asset links to retrieve raw imagery for analysis.

langgraph, pystac-client, rasterio, geopandas. Orchestrates multi-step spatial querying, downloading, and LLM-based verification pipelines using stateful graph workflows. Requires an LLM capable of generating geospatial processing code and interpreting formatted parametric claim data.

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 and successfully downloads raster imagery for the specified timeframe.

Calculates vegetation stress indices from the downloaded imagery to identify crop anomalies against baseline data.

Identifies and discounts cloud-contaminated pixels to compute and report explicit uncertainty percentages.

```json [ { "input": { "parcel_id": "ORCHARD-CITRUS-09", "stac_item": "S2A_L2A_20230115", "cloud_cover_pct": 4.2, "ndvi_anomaly": -0.38, "freeze_duration_hours": 7.5 }, "expected_output": { "parcel_id": "ORCHARD-CITRUS-09", "frost_impact_confirmed": true, "parametric_threshold_status": "TRIGGERED", "pixel_confidence_pct": 95.8, "claim_evidence_status": "VERIFIED" } }, { "input": { "parcel_id": "ORCHARD-CITRUS-10", "stac_item": "S2A_L2A_20230116", "cloud_cover_pct": 48, "ndvi_anomaly": -0.12, "freeze_duration_hours": 2 }, "expected_output": { "parcel_id": "ORCHARD-CITRUS-10", "frost_impact_confirmed": false, "parametric_threshold_status": "UNRESOLVED_CLOUD_INTERFERENCE", "pixel_confidence_pct": 52, "claim_evidence_status": "FLAGGED_FOR_MANUAL_SURVEY" } } ] ```

Supplies advisory crop health verification metrics; does not execute direct insurance claim disbursements. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Supplies advisory crop health verification metrics; does not execute direct insurance claim disbursements. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Parses STAC Item asset links and successfully downloads raster imagery for the specified timeframe. Calculates vegetation stress indices from the downloaded imagery to identify crop anomalies against baseline data. Identifies and discounts cloud-contaminated pixels to compute and report explicit uncertainty percentages.

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 STAC collections for post-freeze Sentinel-2 and Landsat surface reflectance scenes. Filter STAC items by cloud cover metadata and download assets to compute vegetation stress indices. Cross-reference spatial crop anomaly boundaries with agricultural parcel registers using geographic tools. Generate a verified parametric frost loss assessment with observation confidence bounds based on cloud interference.

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 and successfully downloads raster imagery for the specified timeframe. Calculates vegetation stress indices from the downloaded imagery to identify crop anomalies against baseline data. Identifies and discounts cloud-contaminated pixels to compute and report explicit uncertainty percentages.

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

Dual-pane dashboard showing downloaded optical imagery, masked cloud layers, and parametric trigger verification matrices.

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

Supplies advisory crop health verification metrics; does not execute direct insurance claim disbursements.

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 STAC collections for post-freeze Sentinel-2 and Landsat surface reflectance scenes.

  • Filter STAC items by cloud cover metadata and download assets to compute vegetation stress indices.

  • Cross-reference spatial crop anomaly boundaries with agricultural parcel registers using geographic tools.

  • Generate a verified parametric frost loss assessment with observation confidence bounds based on cloud interference.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Query public Earth observation STAC APIs (such as Earth Search) for imagery URLs. Store sample parcel boundaries in local GeoJSON files. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

LangGraph

Runtime for stateful agent workflows.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Query STAC collections for post-freeze Sentinel-2 and Landsat surface reflectance scenes. Filter STAC items...
  • Parses STAC Item asset links and successfully downloads raster imagery for the specified timeframe. Calcula...
  • Dual-pane dashboard showing downloaded optical imagery, masked cloud layers, and parametric trigger verific...
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
  • LangGraph · Optional
Orchestration
  • LangGraph · 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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