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<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/index.htm'>COM.Geo
2012 Highlight (3): Big Data Computing for Geospatial</a> </p>
<p>US President Barack Obama’s administration announced a ‘Big Data’
research and development initiative in response to processing the
large amount of data collected by geospatial and other systems.
Under this initiative, several federal government agencies, NSF,
USGS, DARPA, DOD, NIH, and DOE, commitment for the programs total
$200 million. <br />
Big data refers to the rising flood of digital data from many sources,
including the sensors, digitizers, scanners, software-based modeling,
mobile phones, internet, videos, e-mails, and social network communications.
The data type could be texts, geometries, images, videos, sounds,
or their combination. Many of such data are directly or indirectly
related to geospatial information. The emerging opportunity arises
from combining these diverse data sources with greatly improving
computing tools and techniques needed to access, organize, analyze,
visualize, and extract useful information from huge diverse data
sets.
<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/index.htm'>
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<p class='title_3'>Keynote Speakers from USGS, Nokia, NVIDIA, OGC,
...</p>
<p>More keynote and featured note speakers from federal governments,
leading industries, and prestigious universities will be revealed
soon.</p>
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<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/index.htm'>Paper
Acceptance Notification </a></p>
<p>All the paper acceptance notifications with reviewers' comments
have been sent to the authors by April 19. If you have not received
yet, please
<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/org_contact.htm'>
contact us</a>. </p>
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Authors</em></p>
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<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/index.htm'>Call
for Lightning Talks</a> </p>
<p>Lightning Talk -<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/important_dates.htm'>Tech
Talk Submission Deadline Extended to Apr. 30 </a></p>
<p>Lightning Talk -<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/important_dates.htm'>Demo
Talk Submission Deadline M<span class='auto-style1'>ay 7</span></a></p>
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<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/important_dates.htm'>
Upcoming Submission Deadlines</a></p>
<p class='title_3'>Conference Hotel Reservation </p>
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<p>Book your hotel early before peak of travel season,<strong>
</strong>USA's Birthday,
<a href='http://www.com-geo.org/conferences/2012/venue_dc.htm'>
July 4th, Independence Day</a><strong>,</strong> at a<strong>
</strong>great discounted conference rate<strong> $136
</strong>with other benefits<strong> </strong>to save the
most money and ensure your first choice of accommodations.
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<p class='title_3'>Invitation to Sponsor & Exhibit in Washington
DC</p>
<p>At COM.Geo 2012, your organization can not only attract diverse
attendees from all over the world, but also be well positioned and
highly visible for department managers and decision makers from
government agencies. Take advantage of these great promotional opportunities
and select the level of sponsorship best suited for your organization.
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<p class='style22'><strong>About COM.Geo </strong></p>
<p class='style21'>Computing for Geospatial Research Institute (COM.Geo)
is one of the leading-edge geospatial computing research organizations in
the world. COM.Geo is playing a guiding role to advancing the technologies
in computing for geospatial research and application fields. COM.Geo R&D
focuses on the latest computing technologies for multidisciplinary research
and development that enables the exploration in geospatial areas. COM.Geo
training center offers the most up-to-date training for working professionals
to boost their technical knowledge and skills of computing for geospatial
technology. COM.Geo conference is an exclusive international event that
connects researchers, developers, scientists, and application users from
academia, government, and industry in both computing and geospatial fields.
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