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Challenge

Build a Wildfire Buffer Maintenance Work Order Generator

Analyze wildland-urban interface commercial property perimeters by locating recent high-resolution earth observation imagery via STAC metadata. Generate vegetation trimming work orders to ensure defensible space compliance.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Analyze wildland-urban interface commercial property perimeters by locating recent high-resolution earth observation imagery via STAC metadata. Generate vegetation trimming work orders to ensure defensible space compliance.

Facility Risk Specialist

Extract property boundary vectors and defined 30-meter and 100-meter defensible perimeter buffers.

Query a STAC API for Items covering the property boundaries and extract image asset download URLs.

Calculate canopy density anomalies and dry fuel accumulation within defensible zones using the retrieved images.

Generate an actionable groundskeeping work order specifying clearing quadrants and debris disposal methods.

Facility management portal visualizing vegetation encroachment overlays alongside clear contractor task lists.

Utilize STAC API compliant endpoints (e.g. Earth Search) to query metadata and download associated image assets for pre- and post-season analysis. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

STAC specification Parses STAC Item metadata, specifically bounding boxes, datetime fields, and asset download URLs conforming to STAC specification 1.1.0.

qdrant, pystac, shapely. Indexes visual and spatial parcel canopy embedding vectors to retrieve and cluster high-risk vegetation encroachment patterns. Local or cloud multimodal model capable of interpreting satellite vegetation metadata and writing clean operational checklists.

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.

Detects vegetation canopy coverage exceeding 20% in the immediate 30-meter structural defense zone.

Emits localized clearing work tickets mapped to parcel perimeter cardinal zones (North, South, East, West).

Includes contractor safety protocols regarding deadwood removal without authorizing unsupervised tree felling.

```json [ { "input": { "property_id": "FAC-WUI-501", "zone_30m_canopy_pct": 34.5, "zone_100m_canopy_pct": 52, "predominant_fuel": "chaparral_scrub", "quadrant_flags": { "north": true, "south": false, "east": true, "west": false } }, "expected_output": { "property_id": "FAC-WUI-501", "compliance_status": "non_compliant", "work_orders": [ { "quadrant": "north", "target_reduction_pct": 14.5, "clearance_type": "canopy_thinning_and_brushing" }, { "quadrant": "east", "target_reduction_pct": 14.5, "clearance_type": "deadwood_and_brush_removal" } ], "human_inspection_required": true } }, { "input": { "property_id": "FAC-WUI-502", "zone_30m_canopy_pct": 8, "zone_100m_canopy_pct": 22, "predominant_fuel": "mowed_turf", "quadrant_flags": { "north": false, "south": false, "east": false, "west": false } }, "expected_output": { "property_id": "FAC-WUI-502", "compliance_status": "compliant", "work_orders": [], "human_inspection_required": false } } ] ```

Outputs vegetation management recommendations only; does not issue binding regulatory citations or unsupervised forestry permits. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Outputs vegetation management recommendations only; does not issue binding regulatory citations or unsupervised forestry permits. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Detects vegetation canopy coverage exceeding 20% in the immediate 30-meter structural defense zone. Emits localized clearing work tickets mapped to parcel perimeter cardinal zones (North, South, East, West). Includes contractor safety protocols regarding deadwood removal without authorizing unsupervised tree felling.

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

Extract property boundary vectors and defined 30-meter and 100-meter defensible perimeter buffers. Query a STAC API for Items covering the property boundaries and extract image asset download URLs. Calculate canopy density anomalies and dry fuel accumulation within defensible zones using the retrieved images. Generate an actionable groundskeeping work order specifying clearing quadrants and debris disposal methods.

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

Detects vegetation canopy coverage exceeding 20% in the immediate 30-meter structural defense zone. Emits localized clearing work tickets mapped to parcel perimeter cardinal zones (North, South, East, West). Includes contractor safety protocols regarding deadwood removal without authorizing unsupervised tree felling.

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

Facility management portal visualizing vegetation encroachment overlays alongside clear contractor task lists.

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

Outputs vegetation management recommendations only; does not issue binding regulatory citations or unsupervised forestry permits.

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

  • Extract property boundary vectors and defined 30-meter and 100-meter defensible perimeter buffers.

  • Query a STAC API for Items covering the property boundaries and extract image asset download URLs.

  • Calculate canopy density anomalies and dry fuel accumulation within defensible zones using the retrieved images.

  • Generate an actionable groundskeeping work order specifying clearing quadrants and debris disposal methods.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Utilize STAC API compliant endpoints (e.g. Earth Search) to query metadata and download associated image assets for pre- and post-season analysis. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Qdrant

Open-source vector database.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Extract property boundary vectors and defined 30-meter and 100-meter defensible perimeter buffers. Query a...
  • Detects vegetation canopy coverage exceeding 20% in the immediate 30-meter structural defense zone. Emits l...
  • Facility management portal visualizing vegetation encroachment overlays alongside clear contractor task lists.
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
  • Qdrant · Optional
Observation
  • Qdrant · 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

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