Submission deadline - CoRE Stack

Super excited to launch the first edition of the CoRE stack innovation challenge on geospatial programming! The CoRE stack is taking a novel approach to geospatial programming by providing ready-to-use pre-computed data of various landscape entities – micro-watersheds, waterbodies, forests, agroforestry plantations – organized in nested and connected spatial units, and populated with tons of datapoints about these entities to build a comprehensive place-based social-ecological understanding. Researchers and developers therefore do not need to worry about running complex geospatial workflows to generate all this data – we have done all that for you. You can rather just focus on asking the right questions from the data which includes changes over the years in cropping intensity, water-table levels, health of waterbodies, forests and plantations, welfare fund allocation, and more.

Challenge details: https://lnkd.in/g5aSCNa6

The CoRE stack has been built in an extremely open and collaborative manner, and the challenge aims to do the same: Let us use this as an opportunity to not just come up with new ideas, but also help point out bugs, solve these bugs, identify new APIs and datapoints that will help, and the engineering and maintainers team will do their best to do this quickly.

Timeline & milestones
- Launch: Nov 22, 2025
- Weekly developer community calls / mentorship: Fridays, 3-4pm
- Submission deadline: Dec 31, 2025
- Shortlist & demos: Jan 15, 2026
- Winners announced & prize distribution: Jan 31, 2026