The workshop aims to bring leading researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields and operating on data collection, processing, storage, and visualization to present and promote their latest research and development works and discuss current trends, applications, and challenges related to Geospatial Big Data (GBD). We particularly solicit original research contributions, position papers, practical development experiences, and surveys addressing the topics that include, but not limited to:
• Geospatial information acquisition and dissemination methods
• Hazard management and GBD
• Security issues in acquisition and dissemination of geospatial data
• Privacy issues in GBD
• Trust issues in GBD
• Legal issues in acquisition and dissemination of geospatial data
• Uncertainty in GBD
• Geospatial Data quality issues
• GBD life-cycle and interoperability
• Semantic heterogeneity issues in GBD
• The impacts of GBD in social networks
• The role of social networks in enhancing GBD
• New concepts and theories in GBD
• Volunteered geographic information (VGI) and GBD
• Crowdsourcing and GBD
• GBD analytics and processing
• GBD for improved decision-making and Business Intelligence
• The impacts of big data on designing Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• GBD and hazard management
• GBD and pattern discovery
• Open data
• Unstructured data
• Smart GBD

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2016
Author Notification: June 20, 2016
Camera Ready: July 15, 2016

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results. The page limit for papers should not exceed 6 pages including all figures, tables and references. Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science. See MS Word Template, Latex.
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically in PDF format. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org (see https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gbdtac2016). If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking “I have no EasyChair account” button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: gbdws16@gmail.com