2026 KY GIS Conference Workshops - Tuesday AFTERNOON

  • 2026-09-29
  • 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Campbell House, 1375 S. Broadway, Lexington, KY 40504

Registration

  • Led by Rick Wallace, Austin Coates, & Chancee Vincent with NV5 Geospatial. Workshop will be in the Carriage Room at the Campbell House.
  • Led by Boyd Shearer. Workshop will be in Rockbridge Room at the Campbell House.
  • Vince DiNoto & Chris Wright with GeoTech Center. Workshop will be in the Bluegrass A Room at the Campbell House.

    This is an intermediate-level workshop that requires knowledge of ArcGIS Pro. No experience with Python is required.

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Using Esri ArcGIS Pro Notebooks and AI to Create Python Scripts

Vince DiNoto & Chris Wright, GeoTech Center

This workshop will explore writing AI prompts that create Python scripts and completing geospatial tasks within ArcGIS Pro. The writing of an AI prompt will be explored, which requires the use of keywords. The workshop will also look at modifications that must be made to scripts to run properly. Basic Python scripting will also be explored. The instructor will demonstrate the processes, and participants are welcome to follow along on their own laptops. Basic geospatial knowledge is required for this workshop.

GeoAI in Action: Agentic AI for Geospatial and Remote Sensing Workflows

Rick Wallace, Austin Coates, Chancee Vincent, NV5

This workshop offers an introduction to agentic artificial intelligence within the geospatial and remote sensing industry, presented by the NV5 Geospatial team. Attendees will gain a working understanding of how AI agents are built and applied to real-world GIS and remote sensing workflows, spanning both vector and raster data. Through live demonstrations of NV5's GeoAI product suite, presenters will show how organizations can move from raw geospatial data to actionable decisions using agentic, AI-driven tools. The session will close with a look ahead at where agentic AI is headed across the GIS and remote sensing industry, and what organizations should prepare for as the technology matures. Attendees will have the opportunity to log in and interact directly with the platforms being demonstrated. This will be a hands-on demonstration and discussion session rather than a lab exercise since we'll be in the hotel meeting space. We'd like attendees to bring their own laptops so they can log in and follow along. We'll be demonstrating NV5's GeoAI agentic solutions live.

New Annual USGS Land Cover Database (NLCD) Data and Services for Kentucky

Boyd Shearer

In 2024, USGS released the first Annual National Land Cover Database for the contiguous United States. This database provides a consistent and comparable view of land cover across four decades. The Division of Geographic Information (DGI) has published the annual land cover data as web services and applications to help communities across the Commonwealth access and analyze it. This workshop will provide an overview of the data, how to access it, and how to apply visualization and spatial analysis techniques in ArcGIS Pro. Finally, we will explore how to use Jupyter Notebooks and Map Algebra to discover and measure landscape change. This is a hands-on workshop with demonstrations and exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops with ArcGIS Pro installed if they prefer.