Processed Thematic Mapper Satellite Imagery for Selected Areas Within the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, USGS OFR 00-309

To provide processed satellite images of key areas along the U. S.-Mexico
border for use in a broad spectrum of studies. Landsat data have been used by
government, commercial, industrial, civilian, and educational communities in
the U.S. and worldwide. They are being used to support a wide range of
applications in such areas as global change research, agriculture, forestry,
geology, resources management, geography, mapping, water quality, and
oceanography. Landsat data have potential applications for monitoring the
conditions of the Earth's land surface.

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.