CFP is published [01.07.2026]. ×
5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Searching and Mining Large Collections of Geospatial Data
SIGSPATIAL Conference Dates: Nov 3-6, 2026
GeoSearch Workshop Date: Nov 3, 2026
Venue: Riverside Convention Center
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Mission

The proliferation of geospatial data has accelerated due to advances in Earth Observation (EO) technologies, the widespread deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, the rise of open science initiatives, and the increasing availability of cloud-native and AI-driven geospatial platforms. This data is now highly heterogeneous in format, modality, resolution, and temporal scale, and is being generated at unprecedented speed and volume. These trends introduce significant challenges—and opportunities—in how to efficiently search, integrate, and mine massive, multimodal geospatial datasets to reveal meaningful patterns and support informed decision-making.

Example topics include but are not limited to:

  • Search and Retrieval using LLMs, VLMs and World Model
  • Geospatial Reasoning for Effective Search and Retrieval
  • Spatial Representation Learning for Search and Retrieval
  • Spatial Pattern Matching
  • Geospatial Knowledge Graphs for Search
  • Multimedia Information Retrieval
  • Neural Search in Spatio-temporal Data
  • Search in Large Spatio-temporal Data Cubes
  • Searching Geospatial Objects - Vector Geometry, 3D Point Clouds, Spatial Trajectories, Positioning, Localization and Navigation
  • Metadata design and cataloguing of Machine Learning Models
  • Design of Data and Model Relational Structures
  • Keyword-Search in Spatial Data
  • Spatial Index Structures for Search
  • Scalable Search Interfaces, Frameworks and Implementations
  • Data Representations and Containers facilitating content-based retrieval

GeoSearch '25 Workshop Proceedings https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3764920

Program

CFP is published [01.07.2026]

Submission Format

The GeoSearch 2026 is a half-day workshop in the 34th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026), which consists of keynotes and individual paper presentations. Two submission format will be included in this workshop:

  • Full research paper: 6-8 pages
  • Short research paper or demo paper: 4 pages

Full research papers should present mature research on a specific problem or topic in the context of geospatial search. We also welcome short research articles or industry demonstrations of existing or developing methods, toolkits, and best practices for AI applications in the geospatial domain.

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed to ensure the quality and the clarity of the presented research work. Submissions will be single-blind — i.e., the names affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference, attend the workshop, and present the paper during the workshop.

Submission system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=geosearch2026

Important Dates

 

Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, August 28, 2026

Author Notification: Friday, September 18, 2026

Camera Ready Version: Monday, October 12, 2026

Workshop: November 3, 2026

Workshop Chairs

Hao Li

Hao Li

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Lukas Arzoumanidis

Lukas Arzoumanidis

HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany

Nicole Schneider

Nicole Schneider

University of Maryland, USA

Abhishek Potnis

Abhishek Potnis

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Martin Werner

Martin Werner

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Wenwen Li

Wenwen Li

Arizona State University, USA

Program Committee

Bharath Aithal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Biplab Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Fabian Deuser, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Filip Biljecki, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Francisco Arguello, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Gengchen Mai, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Huynh Duc An Son Nguyen, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany
Kamal Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Katharina Anders, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Kuldeep Kurte, Indian Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Markus Goetz, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany
Morris Riedel, University of Iceland, Iceland
Pedram Ghamisi, HZDR and IARAI, Germany
Pratyush Talreja, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Rajat Shinde, NASA IMPACT - University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Rajesh Reddy, Indian Space Research Organization, India
Shawn Newsam, University of California, Merced, USA
Steffen Knoblauch, Heidelberg University, Germany
Youness Dehbi, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany