# CoRE stack innovation challenge on geospatial programming

**URL:** <https://forum.fossunited.org/t/core-stack-innovation-challenge-on-geospatial-programming/6920>\
**Category:** Season of Commits\
**Created:** [20 December 2025 15:49 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/core-stack-innovation-challenge-on-geospatial-programming/6920 "2025-12-20T15:49:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ansh](https://forum.fossunited.org/user_avatar/forum.fossunited.org/ansh/32/1423_2.png) [@ansh](https://forum.fossunited.org/u/ansh)\
**Post date:** [13 March 2026 09:26 UTC](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/core-stack-innovation-challenge-on-geospatial-programming/6920/2 "2026-03-13T09:26:32Z")

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FOSS United Foundation has joined the [CoRE Stack Innovation Challenge](https://core-stack.org/core-stack-innovation-challenge-1st-edition/).

We are very excited to announce that three PoC contributions are being provided follow-on support from as part of the [Season of Commits](https://forum.fossunited.org/t/season-of-commits-2026/7501) program to enhance and build them out into full-fledged products. A set of mentors will also engage actively and guide the contributions to ensure technical correctness and rigour.

1. Agricultural intelligence dashboard demonstrated for the Nashik district, to study patterns of cropping intensification and relate them to commodity prices and mandi locations. As you can guess, this was by an economist! Meet [Sanket Gharat](https://github.com/metalwings-design).
  - Check out the [live demo](https://nashik-onion-dynamics-c45btfoncjezeeoecgxpn4.streamlit.app/)
  - [Github repo](https://github.com/metalwings-design/nashik-onion-dynamics) of the dashboard
  - [Video recording](https://youtu.be/-DvfvyavPAg)
  - Next steps: Generalize for near-automation of generating similar dashboards for any district.

2. Full listing of the tanks in Anekal and layering biodiversity data pulled from the citizen science platforms, eBird and iNaturalist. The idea was proposed by [Kaustubh Rau](https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/people/kaustubh-rau) who has been maintaining the [Tanks of Anekal](https://tanksofanekal.in/) website, and taken up by [Anoop Asranna](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anoopasranna/).
  - Check out the [demo](https://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~aseth/temp/anekal_all_lakes_2026_2.html)
  - [Code and documentation](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jQliY2WPOp-Y49om443M1_vy25jdxExt?usp=drive_link) with several steps of data cleaning
  - [Video recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBHI8ZdPPE0)
  - Next steps: Generalize to enhance the [waterbody dashboard](https://www.explorer.core-stack.org/) on the CoRE stack to also show biodiversity information alongside climate, land-use, and surface water availability changes, and integrate with the Tanks of Anekal website.

3. _Fields_ app, which lets users define various geospatial layers of interest, makes the layers available offline, and lets people validate these layers. To be enhanced into supporting communities to build PBRs. Meet [Trishal Kumar](https://github.com/tkkr6895), the creator of _Fields_!
  - [Report](https://github.com/tkkr6895/fields/blob/main/docs/App_Demonstration_Report.pdf) with screenshots
  - [Github repo](https://github.com/tkkr6895/fields) to build your own APK for your layers and areas of interest
  - [Video recording](https://youtu.be/9NW6fQj8ACE)
  - Next steps: Build _Fields_ into a full fledged product that allows users to contribute groundtruth labels, export the datasets, and draw insights from the data.

More details here - [First round of Innovation Challenge Advances – CoRE Stack](https://core-stack.org/first-round-of-innovation-challenge-advances/)

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