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Challenge

Build a STAC Wildfire Imagery Evidence Link Compiler

Process SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog metadata to identify post-wildfire multispectral imagery over damaged agricultural parcels. Construct verifiable claim evidence dossiers compiling pre- and post-fire imagery asset links for adjuster review.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Process SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog metadata to identify post-wildfire multispectral imagery over damaged agricultural parcels. Construct verifiable claim evidence dossiers compiling pre- and post-fire imagery asset links for adjuster review.

Agricultural Loss Adjuster

Parse agricultural parcel boundary GeoJSON geometries and claim event dates.

Search STAC catalogs for pre- and post-event multispectral Items.

Extract asset href links for red and near-infrared image bands.

Compile structured evidence dossiers containing imagery metadata and verified asset links.

Web dashboard with a map bounding-box selector and evidence manifest download button.

Query public STAC Item JSON records from open static catalogs using pystac; use local mock STAC metadata for offline development. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

STAC specification Extracts STAC Item GeoJSON features, temporal properties, and asset link references according to the STAC specification.

langgraph, pystac, shapely. LangGraph orchestrates the multi-step retrieval of temporal catalog items and validates spatial intersections for the evidence dossier. Reasoning model for extracting metadata and organizing structured claim imagery manifests.

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.

Validates that the retrieved STAC Item geometry intersects the requested parcel bounding box.

Extracts valid asset href URLs matching the required multispectral bands.

Generates a compiled imagery evidence dossier with an explicit manual review flag.

```json [ { "input": { "claim_id": "CLM-FIRE-88", "bbox": [ -120.5, 38.2, -120.4, 38.3 ], "stac_item": { "id": "S2A_20230815", "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ -120.6, 38.1 ], [ -120.3, 38.1 ], [ -120.3, 38.4 ], [ -120.6, 38.4 ], [ -120.6, 38.1 ] ] ] }, "assets": { "nir": { "href": "https://example.org/bands/B08.tif" } } } }, "expected_output": { "claim_id": "CLM-FIRE-88", "matched_item_id": "S2A_20230815", "evidence_status": "READY_FOR_ADJUSTER", "asset_url": "https://example.org/bands/B08.tif", "record_type": "simplified synthetic app record" } }, { "input": { "claim_id": "CLM-FIRE-89", "bbox": [ -120.5, 38.2, -120.4, 38.3 ], "stac_item": { "id": "S2A_EMPTY", "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ 0, 0 ], [ 1, 0 ], [ 1, 1 ], [ 0, 1 ], [ 0, 0 ] ] ] }, "assets": {} } }, "expected_output": { "claim_id": "CLM-FIRE-89", "matched_item_id": null, "evidence_status": "NO_COVERAGE", "asset_url": null, "record_type": "simplified synthetic app record" } } ] ```

Creates audit packages containing imagery links for human adjuster verification; does not approve insurance payouts or assess final severity. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Creates audit packages containing imagery links for human adjuster verification; does not approve insurance payouts or assess final severity. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Validates that the retrieved STAC Item geometry intersects the requested parcel bounding box. Extracts valid asset href URLs matching the required multispectral bands. Generates a compiled imagery evidence dossier with an explicit manual review flag.

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 agricultural parcel boundary GeoJSON geometries and claim event dates. Search STAC catalogs for pre- and post-event multispectral Items. Extract asset href links for red and near-infrared image bands. Compile structured evidence dossiers containing imagery metadata and verified asset links.

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

Validates that the retrieved STAC Item geometry intersects the requested parcel bounding box. Extracts valid asset href URLs matching the required multispectral bands. Generates a compiled imagery evidence dossier with an explicit manual review flag.

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

Web dashboard with a map bounding-box selector and evidence manifest download button.

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

Creates audit packages containing imagery links for human adjuster verification; does not approve insurance payouts or assess final severity.

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 agricultural parcel boundary GeoJSON geometries and claim event dates.

  • Search STAC catalogs for pre- and post-event multispectral Items.

  • Extract asset href links for red and near-infrared image bands.

  • Compile structured evidence dossiers containing imagery metadata and verified asset links.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Query public STAC Item JSON records from open static catalogs using pystac; use local mock STAC metadata for offline development. 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
  • Parse agricultural parcel boundary GeoJSON geometries and claim event dates. Search STAC catalogs for pre-...
  • Validates that the retrieved STAC Item geometry intersects the requested parcel bounding box. Extracts vali...
  • Web dashboard with a map bounding-box selector and evidence manifest download button.
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

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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