The explosion of computing driven geospatial based applications in the past few years has revolutionized the way we live and work. Computing technologies, such as sensor computing, cloud computing, mobile computing, visual computing, business intelligence, spatial database server, and high-performance computing, play key roles in geospatial technologies and applications.

COM.Geo focuses on the latest computing technologies for multidisciplinary research and development that enables the exploration in geospatial areas. Innovative geospatial research and application technologies are the brightest spotlights at COM.Geo conference. COM.Geo is playing a guiding role to advancing the technologies in computing for geospatial fields.

COM.Geo conference is a leading-edge conference for computing for geospatial research and application. It is an exclusive event that builds a bridge between computing and geospatial areas. The event connects researchers, developers, scientists, and application users from academia, government, and industry in all related fields. COM.Geo publications, read and cited worldwide, have broad impact on the development of theory, method and practice in Computing for Geospatial fields. Accepted manuscripts appear in the COM.Geo Proceedings for world distribution.

COM.Geo 2014 is the 5th International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application on Aug. 4-6, 2014 in Washington DC and online COM.* Virtual Conference (COM.* VC) in conjunction with COM.BigData 2014 and COM.DriverlessCar 2014 Summits.

This year, it features a very exciting event program on Big Data, including leading-edge keynotes, panels, tech shows, workshops, federal lab tours, etc. from governments, industries, and academia. There will be a great opportunity for everyone to learn the latest innovation, trends, and interrelation, vision, future impacts and challenges, and new perspectives from other world-class leaders of all three sides at the event.

This year, it features a very exciting event program on Big Data, including leading-edge keynotes, panels, tech shows, workshops, federal lab tours, etc. from governments, industries, and academia. There will be a great opportunity for everyone to learn the latest innovation, trends, and interrelation, vision, future impacts and challenges, and new perspectives from other world-class leaders of all three sides at the event.

In particular, the highlights of COM.BigData 2014 are as follows:

1) Federal Big Data Working Group Keynote: The Federal Big Data Initiative: Where it has been and where it is going

2) Northrop Grumman Keynote: Big Data - A System Integrator's Perspective

3) Oracle Keynote: Big Data and Geospatial Analytics

4) U.S. DOE Keynote: Extreme Computing and Data Challenges

5) Emerging Tech Panel+ I: Federal Big Data Working Group

6) Emerging Tech Panel+ II: Challenges and Solutions for Big Data in the Cloud

7) Emerging Tech Panel+ III: Big Data and Geospatial Computing

8) Emerging Tech Panel+ IV: Tech Insights: Big Data, Driverless Car, Sensor, Geospatial, Visual Computing

9) Oracle Workshop: Learn to Build an Analytics Solution with Oracle's Spatial Tools and Platform

10) OGC & ISO Workshop: Big Geo Data: Standards and Best Practices

11) SAML Best Practice Workshop: SAML for OGC, OpenLayers, Google Earth

12)  Geospatial Computing Tech Shows, Papers, Tech Talks, Posters, etc.