Prepared by the New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
When the CD is inserted into a Windows-based computer, an autorun screen should appear and provide a menu of options. If not, run the program Autorun.exe.
System requirements: A computer running Windows 9x/NT/2000 with at least 64 Mb of RAM.
Text of this report can be found here in Adobe Acrobat format: /report/RFD.pdf Adobe Acrobat can be installed from this CD-ROM (from the Autorun menu or manually from the /programs/Acrobat directory) or can be downloaded for free from Adobe at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat.
Also included on this CD are two Geographic Information System (GIS) projects that present the report data in geographic context -- one that runs under ArcView 3.x, (see http://www.esri.com/software/arcview/index.html) and one that runs under the free ArcExplorer GIS data browser (included). For information on how to use the ArcExplorer software, install the software, open the project using the Autorun menu (or navigate to /RFD.aep on the CD-ROM, and then consult the help menu (or visit the ESRI website http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html).
All of the GIS data included on this CD-ROM is stored in geographic coordinates using the North American Datum of 1927. This data is projected within the ArcView project to UTM zone 13, but can easily be reprojected to match other datasets (consult the ArcView help menu for a discussion on projections). ArcExplorer is incapable of projecting coordinates on-the-fly, so the map is in geographic coordinates and appears somewhat geometrically distorted. Much of the data provided on this CD-ROM is publicly available from the Resource Geographic Information System Program (http://rgis.unm.edu/).
Metadata for most of the data is provided as html files and as text files with the extension *.met. See the autorun menu or metadata.html for further documentation.