LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 



ADRO RADARSAT Application Development and Research Opportunity 



AXBT Air-deployable expendable BathyThermograph 



BAPS iceBerg Analysis and Prediction System 



CAMSLANT Communications Area Master Station Atlantic 



C-CORE Centre for Cold Ocean Research and Engineering 



CCRS Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing 



CFR Canadian Ice Service reconnaissance aircraft 



CUP Commander, International Ice Patrol 



CIS Canadian Ice Service 



DFO Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans 



DN digital number (RADARSAT backscatter values) 



EGAREG Eastern Canada Vessel Traffic Services Zone 



FLAR Forward-Looking Airborne RADAR 



FNMOC USN Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center 



IRD Ice Reconnaissance Detachment 



IGOSS Integrated Global Ocean Services System 



IIP International Ice Patrol 



ISAR Inverse Synthetic Aperture RADAR 



km kilometer 



LAKI Limit of All Known Ice 



m meter 



METOC Canadian Forces Meteorological and Oceanographic Center 



NIC National Ice Center 



NMF CAMSLANT's international call-sign 



NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 



OMW Ocean Monitoring Workstation 



RT RADAR Target 



SAR Synthetic Aperture RADAR 



SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea 



SST Sea Surface Temperature 



SLAR Side-Looking Airborne RADAR 



USCG United States Coast Guard 



UTC coordinated universal time 



WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment 



