U.S., British Geodetic Surveyors Map Iraq - DefendAmerica News Article

He also serves who pounds reference rods into the ground. From an article by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Chawntain Sloan of the Multinational Corps-Iraq:

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, Aug. 15, 2005 — The weight of their body armor combined with the strain of having to lift a jackhammer over their heads makes their arms quiver like jello. Sweat pours down their faces and burns their eyes, but they won’t stop now. They can’t.

One after another, they connect four-foot stainless steel rods together and drive them further below the surface of the earth. Thirteen rods and 52 feet later, the rods refuse to be driven any further.

The engineers assigned to Multinational Corps-Iraq then cover the exposed tip of the rod with a custom access cover and insert a fluorescent orange sign to indicate the location is ready to be surveyed.

The team of U.S. and British Army geodetic surveyors has successfully established another reference point along the road to reconstruction in Iraq, one of many in the first Iraqi Geospatial Reference System that identifies geospatial locations using names or numeric coordinates.

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The joint coalition team began working on the project in April, which is modeled on the National Spatial Reference System in the United States.

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By the time the project is completed around June 2006, the Iraqi Geospatial Reference System will be comprised of six hubs called Continuously Operating Reference Stations and about 300 different reference points known as High Accuracy Reference Networks that are geographically located throughout Iraq.

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