Hands-On GIS: Modern Mapping, Spatial Analysis, and Data Visualization
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed 24-48 business hours before the date of the webinar.
Please log into the webinar 10-15 minutes before start time.
Friday, October 30, 2026
8:30 am – 4:30 pm CT
Agenda:
Presented by Joseph J. Kerski, PhD, GISP
Spatial is Special!
- GIS definitions
- What are maps? Why are they relevant to 21st century decision making?
- Key GIS software tools and organizations using GIS
- The whys of where
- Activity 1: Spatial and attribute characteristics
- Activity 2: A field survey, map, dashboard, and story map
- The modern GIS platform: maps, layers, apps, data services
Break
Let’s Get Mapping!
- Activity 3: Symbology — single symbol, graduated symbol, predominance maps, pie charts, ring chart maps
- Activity 4: Creating expressions; analyzing change over space and time
- Activity 5: Filtering data and working with isolines
- Activity 6: Explore different ways of mapping field data
Lunch
Investigating Relationships, Mapping Databases, Creating Field Surveys
- Activity 7: Bivariate and relationship mapping
- Activity 8: Analyzing relationships with scatterplots and maps
- Activity 9: Mapping a spreadsheet
- Discussion: vector data, imagery, raster data
- Activity 10: Creating a field survey and online map
- Mappy time! Selected amazing maps and map-related books
Break
Communicating Your Results and Spatial Analysis I
- Demonstrate: web mapping applications including Living Atlas of the World apps
- Activity 11: Creating a dashboard
- Activity 12: Creating a story map
- Activity 13: Spatial analysis I — natural hazards
- Discussion on sharing — when and how to do it
Spatial Analysis II, Editing, GIS Management
- Activity 14: Spatial analysis II — invasive species
- Activity 15: Editing mapped data
- Activity 16: Geo-AI — feature extraction from satellite imagery
- GIS workflows and considerations
- GIS content organization and management
- ArcGIS Pro and GIS tools
- Data quality and the ethics of mapping
- Continuing your GIS journey: books, organizations, tutorials, associations, networks, events
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Credits
Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Land Surveyors
7.0 PDH/PDUs
PIE - Practicing Institute of Engineering
7.0 PDHs
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 7.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in most states. Please refer to specific state rules to verify eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider License No: CEA362), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, and New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00049300). HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for land surveyors licensed in Indiana (License No. CE10600325) and Maryland. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and land surveyors via its registration with the Practicing Institute of Engineering (PIE).
This webinar has been evaluated for compliance with NYS Mandatory Continuing Education requirements for professional engineers and land surveyors by the Practicing Institute of Engineering, and has been approved for 7.0 PDHs.
This webinar has been registered with the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers for 7.0 continuing education credits. This course has been approved by the Missouri Board of APEPLSPLA for 7.0 PDUs.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed).
While this course is designed to qualify for credit in all states, licensing boards have final authority with respect to acceptance of credits. We recommend reviewing the rules of your licensing board(s) before undertaking any continuing education activities.
On-Demand Credits
The credits listed above apply only to the live webinar. This course in an on-demand format may not qualify for the same credit in some states. Please refer to specific board rules to determine if an asynchronous, on-demand course is appropriate. The following credits will be included in the on-demand format:
7.0 PDHs (Practicing Institute of Engineering)
Speakers
Joseph Kerski, PhD, GISP, M.A., BA
Ph.D. in Geography (University of Colorado Boulder), M.A. in Geography (University of Kansas), B.A. in Geography (University of Colorado Boulder)Dr. Kerski is a geographer with a focus on analyzing change over space and time across multiple fields of study. His research analyzes the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education. He has served as the President of the National Council for Geographic Education and has given 2 TED Talks on “The Whys of Where”. He holds 3 degrees in geography (BA, MA, PhD) and has served as geographer in 5 major sectors of society, including as an independent consultant, in government (NOAA, US Census Bureau, USGS), academia (University of Minnesota, Harrisburg Area Community College, Penn State University, Sinte Gleska University, University of Denver, others), private industry (as Education Manager for Esri), and in nonprofit organizations (with roles in geography and education associations). Mr. Kerski has authored over 100 chapters and articles, and 200 podcasts on GIS, education, space, place, and related topics. He has visited over 350 schools and 400 universities around the world. He regularly conducts professional development for educators. He has created over 7,000 videos, 2,500 lessons, 1,500 blog essays, and authored 12 books, including Interpreting Our World, Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts, Essentials of the Environment, Spatial Mathematics, Tribal GIS, International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning, the GIS Guide to Public Domain Data, and others. But as a lifelong learner, he feels as though he’s just getting started and thus actively seeks mentors, partners, and collaborators.
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