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Challenge

Build a Wildfire Smoke Asset Exposure Assessor

Process atmospheric STAC Item asset links alongside simplified aerosol optical thickness records over commercial vineyards. Track cumulative smoke exposure days to assemble objective crop taint claim evidence packages.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Process atmospheric STAC Item asset links alongside simplified aerosol optical thickness records over commercial vineyards. Track cumulative smoke exposure days to assemble objective crop taint claim evidence packages.

Viticulture Risk Adjuster

Ingest vineyard polygon and search STAC catalog for atmospheric and multispectral Item links during fire events.

Extract aerosol optical depth asset references and cloud mask metadata from matching STAC Items.

Evaluate ingested normalized aerosol optical thickness records to count cumulative smoke exposure days.

Publish structured loss investigation reports summarizing cumulative exposure and quality risk scores.

Web map displaying smoke plume footprints, STAC scene thumbnails, and vineyard exposure gauges.

Query public Earth observation STAC API with cached Sentinel/Landsat atmospheric asset items, mapping to simplified synthetic aerosol records. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

STAC specification Parse STAC Item properties, asset hrefs, and spatial geometry from STAC specification to locate external aerosol data.

semantic-kernel, shapely, httpx, pandas. Semantic Kernel orchestrates AI skills linking satellite imagery assets with domain claim rubrics and external aerosol records. Hosted reasoning model capable of generating structured claim preparation summaries based on matched external datasets.

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.

Verifies STAC Item spatiotemporal intersection with vineyard boundaries.

Calculates cumulative smoke exposure days based on associated synthetic aerosol records indicating optical depth exceeding 0.5.

Generates standardized claim evidence dossier with direct imagery asset references and human-review flags.

```json [ { "input": { "vineyard_id": "VALLEY-VIN-01", "synthetic_aerosol_records": [ { "stac_id": "AOD_20230810", "aod_value": 0.85, "asset_url": "https://data.example.org/aod_20230810.json" }, { "stac_id": "AOD_20230811", "aod_value": 0.92, "asset_url": "https://data.example.org/aod_20230811.json" } ], "note": "These are simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files." }, "expected_output": { "vineyard_id": "VALLEY-VIN-01", "smoke_days_count": 2, "smoke_taint_risk": "ELEVATED", "evidence_asset_urls": [ "https://data.example.org/aod_20230810.json", "https://data.example.org/aod_20230811.json" ], "dossier_status": "READY_FOR_LAB_VERIFICATION" } }, { "input": { "vineyard_id": "VALLEY-VIN-02", "synthetic_aerosol_records": [ { "stac_id": "AOD_20230810", "aod_value": 0.15, "asset_url": "https://data.example.org/aod_20230810.json" }, { "stac_id": "AOD_20230812", "aod_value": 0.35, "asset_url": "https://data.example.org/aod_20230812.json" } ], "note": "These are simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files." }, "expected_output": { "vineyard_id": "VALLEY-VIN-02", "smoke_days_count": 0, "smoke_taint_risk": "NEGLIGIBLE", "evidence_asset_urls": [], "dossier_status": "NO_EVIDENCE_OF_EXPOSURE" } } ] ```

Evidence dossiers compile observational records to guide laboratory micro-fermentation tests, not legal claim settlement. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Evidence dossiers compile observational records to guide laboratory micro-fermentation tests, not legal claim settlement. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Verifies STAC Item spatiotemporal intersection with vineyard boundaries. Calculates cumulative smoke exposure days based on associated synthetic aerosol records indicating optical depth exceeding 0.5. Generates standardized claim evidence dossier with direct imagery asset references and human-review flags.

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

Ingest vineyard polygon and search STAC catalog for atmospheric and multispectral Item links during fire events. Extract aerosol optical depth asset references and cloud mask metadata from matching STAC Items. Evaluate ingested normalized aerosol optical thickness records to count cumulative smoke exposure days. Publish structured loss investigation reports summarizing cumulative exposure and quality risk scores.

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

Verifies STAC Item spatiotemporal intersection with vineyard boundaries. Calculates cumulative smoke exposure days based on associated synthetic aerosol records indicating optical depth exceeding 0.5. Generates standardized claim evidence dossier with direct imagery asset references and human-review flags.

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 map displaying smoke plume footprints, STAC scene thumbnails, and vineyard exposure gauges.

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

Evidence dossiers compile observational records to guide laboratory micro-fermentation tests, not legal claim settlement.

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

  • Ingest vineyard polygon and search STAC catalog for atmospheric and multispectral Item links during fire events.

  • Extract aerosol optical depth asset references and cloud mask metadata from matching STAC Items.

  • Evaluate ingested normalized aerosol optical thickness records to count cumulative smoke exposure days.

  • Publish structured loss investigation reports summarizing cumulative exposure and quality risk scores.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Query public Earth observation STAC API with cached Sentinel/Landsat atmospheric asset items, mapping to simplified synthetic aerosol records. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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Semantic Kernel

Agent Systems · Agent Frameworks

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest vineyard polygon and search STAC catalog for atmospheric and multispectral Item links during fire ev...
  • Verifies STAC Item spatiotemporal intersection with vineyard boundaries. Calculates cumulative smoke exposu...
  • Web map displaying smoke plume footprints, STAC scene thumbnails, and vineyard exposure gauges.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

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
  • Semantic Kernel · 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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