America's North Shore Journal

While many Soldiers head home in the late hours of the second shift, Sgt. Ronald Peters sits at his desk scanning over imagery, maps and the Internet, sometimes as late as 5 a.m., looking for answers. Peters, a geospatial analyst from Fort Lewis, Wash., with Multi-National Corps-Iraq C-7, is undertaking the largest mapping projects of his career. His work is helping to resolve a concern shared by both the U.S. military and the Iraqi government as troops have pulled out of cities and continue the drawdown. “We try not to say we’re mapmakers, it’s more like being able to geographically depict a possible solution,” Peters said. Peters said while most everything has been mapped, geospatial analysts extract certain features from one map and combine it with features from another map to make a … Read entire article »