Processed Thematic Mapper satellite imagery for selected areas within the U.S.-Mexico borderlands

The passage of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
establishment of the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission
as well as the EPA U.S./Mexico Border XXI Program has focused
attention to the environmental social-cultural, and economic
conditions in the United States-Mexico frontier and to the
enhanced necessity of a binational, transborder approach in
addressing problems. Towards this end, this U.S.-Mexico
borderlands Thematic Mapper selection is designed to be utilized
as fundamental part of a basic geographic information system
database for natural resource, environmental, and land-management
studies.