PE&RS November 1998

Cover Image

This color infrared digital orthophoto quadrangle (DOQ) image of Imperial Beach, California and Tijuana, Mexico was produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in support of the United States-Mexico Binational Aerial Photography, Mapping, and GIS Initiative. On May 6, 1996, during the 13th annual meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission (BNC) in Mexico City, the two countries signed an agreement to undertake an ambitious aerial photographic survey along the entire 3,250 kilometer-long and 200 kilometer-wide border region. As a result of this agreement, and through funding partnerships with Federal and State agencies, the USGS has completed the acquisition of 1:40,000-scale color infrared photographic images for the U.S. portion of the border region. Similarly, Mexico’s mapping agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica (INEGI) is acquiring similar aerial photographs for Mexico. These photographic images are now being used by USGS and INEGI to produce DOQ’s and to digitally update border region maps for use in a binationally seamless GIS.

For more information, contact U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Science Information Centers, at http://mapping.usgs.gov/ and go to the Rocky Mountain Mapping Center Homepage.

Peer Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the full abstract)

1075 Foreword
Richard D. Wright

1077 The United States-Mexico Border Region:  An Overview
Paul Ganster

Historical development; economic, population, and political features; major issues; and recent trends in interdependence and transborder cooperation are discussed. 

1085 United States-Mexico Transboundary Aerial Photography and Mapping Initiative
Kenneth J. Osborn

New maps, digital geospatial data, and a GIS will be used to make informed decisions concerning land and water management, environmental protection, and ecological preservation. 

1089 Using a GIS to Overcome Data Adversity:  Industrial Air Pollution Risk Modeling in Tijuana, Mexico
Anne J. Obee, Ernst C. Griffin, and Richard D. Wright

The distribution of industrial air pollution is modeled and how city morphology affects the types of residential areas which are most susceptible to air pollution from industrial sources is examined through the use of an air pollution risk model. 

1097 Modeling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Sediment Yield in Imperial Valley, California
Mark V. Finco and George F. Hepner

A parcel-scale erosion model is linked to drainage-scale agricultural information in a GIS and is used to quantitatively estimate sediment yield from a 13,000-hectare study area. 

1107 Mapping and Monitoring Agricultural Crops and Other Land Cover in the Lower Colorado River Basin
Russell G. Congalton, Mary Balogh, Cindy Bell, Kass Green, Jeff A. Milliken, and Robert Ottman

Maps of the agricultural crops with a required overall accuracy of 93 percent for use in the water model were generated from Landsat TM data four times per year. 

1115 Transnational Gap Analysis of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Region
Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles, Vincent J. Burke, Michael D. Jennings, Gerardo Ceballos, and Nick C. Parker

Vertebrate modeling, based on habitat associations, will identify habitats potentially important to vertebrate life cycles and areas of high biodiversity.

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