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Challenge

Build a STAC Wildfire Defensible Space Compliance Auditor

Discover SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog imagery items over commercial property boundaries to evaluate wildfire fuel buffers. Fetch imagery assets to identify vegetation encroachment zones and construct actionable wildland-urban interface mitigation plans.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Discover SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog imagery items over commercial property boundaries to evaluate wildfire fuel buffers. Fetch imagery assets to identify vegetation encroachment zones and construct actionable wildland-urban interface mitigation plans.

Wildfire Mitigation Planner

Parse property footprint GeoJSON features and perimeter buffer zones.

Retrieve multispectral STAC Items intersecting the spatial boundary and fetch the linked imagery assets.

Calculate vegetative fuel encroachment inside the 30-meter defensible perimeter from the downloaded imagery.

Produce an adaptation action plan with vegetative thinning priorities.

Interactive map viewer highlighting buffer zones with side-by-side satellite asset comparisons and adaptation action tickets.

Query public STAC API collections using sample bounding boxes. Use mock GeoJSON property boundaries in test directory. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

STAC specification Consumes STAC Item specification GeoJSON Feature attributes, foreign members, and linked asset objects to access and download raster imagery scenes.

dspy, pystac, rasterio. Optimizes structured extraction prompts that evaluate satellite metadata against defensible fuel criteria. Requires an LLM supporting structured generation pipelines with prompt optimization modules.

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.

Extracts bounding box coordinates conforming to STAC Item core specification.

Downloads linked multispectral imagery assets to evaluate vegetation cover.

Generates vegetation thinning priority rankings with quantitative buffer distances.

Produces valid GeoJSON adaptation polygons for property owner review.

```json [ { "input": { "property_id": "PARCEL-WUI-404", "stac_item_id": "S2B_MSIL2A_20230715", "buffer_radius_m": 30, "vegetation_cover_pct": 58.4, "compliance_threshold_pct": 30, "record_type": "simplified synthetic app record" }, "expected_output": { "property_id": "PARCEL-WUI-404", "defensible_space_compliance": "NON_COMPLIANT", "recommended_reduction_pct": 28.4, "adaptation_urgency": "HIGH", "action_code": "THIN_CANOPY_30M" } }, { "input": { "property_id": "PARCEL-WUI-405", "stac_item_id": "S2B_MSIL2A_20230718", "buffer_radius_m": 30, "vegetation_cover_pct": 14.1, "compliance_threshold_pct": 30, "record_type": "simplified synthetic app record" }, "expected_output": { "property_id": "PARCEL-WUI-405", "defensible_space_compliance": "COMPLIANT", "recommended_reduction_pct": 0, "adaptation_urgency": "NONE", "action_code": "MAINTAIN_CLEARANCE" } } ] ```

Generates simulated vegetative thinning recommendations; does not guarantee physical wildfire defensibility. All external actions remain mock or human-reviewed. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Generates simulated vegetative thinning recommendations; does not guarantee physical wildfire defensibility. All external actions remain mock or human-reviewed. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Extracts bounding box coordinates conforming to STAC Item core specification. Downloads linked multispectral imagery assets to evaluate vegetation cover. Generates vegetation thinning priority rankings with quantitative buffer distances. Produces valid GeoJSON adaptation polygons for property owner review.

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

Parse property footprint GeoJSON features and perimeter buffer zones. Retrieve multispectral STAC Items intersecting the spatial boundary and fetch the linked imagery assets. Calculate vegetative fuel encroachment inside the 30-meter defensible perimeter from the downloaded imagery. Produce an adaptation action plan with vegetative thinning priorities.

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

Extracts bounding box coordinates conforming to STAC Item core specification. Downloads linked multispectral imagery assets to evaluate vegetation cover. Generates vegetation thinning priority rankings with quantitative buffer distances. Produces valid GeoJSON adaptation polygons for property owner review.

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

Interactive map viewer highlighting buffer zones with side-by-side satellite asset comparisons and adaptation action tickets.

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

Generates simulated vegetative thinning recommendations; does not guarantee physical wildfire defensibility. All external actions remain mock or human-reviewed.

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

  • Parse property footprint GeoJSON features and perimeter buffer zones.

  • Retrieve multispectral STAC Items intersecting the spatial boundary and fetch the linked imagery assets.

  • Calculate vegetative fuel encroachment inside the 30-meter defensible perimeter from the downloaded imagery.

  • Produce an adaptation action plan with vegetative thinning priorities.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Query public STAC API collections using sample bounding boxes. Use mock GeoJSON property boundaries in test directory. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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DSPy

Prompt and LM program optimization framework.

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Parse property footprint GeoJSON features and perimeter buffer zones. Retrieve multispectral STAC Items int...
  • Extracts bounding box coordinates conforming to STAC Item core specification. Downloads linked multispectra...
  • Interactive map viewer highlighting buffer zones with side-by-side satellite asset comparisons and adaptati...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 3 configured tools

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • DSPy · Optional
Training Infra
  • DSPy · Optional
Orchestration
  • DSPy · 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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