plans for full integration of the two systems. 

 The digital integration of the FLAR and the 

 SLAR could provide substantial improvement 

 in the Ice Patrol's reconnaissance performance. 



Ice Patrol will greatly benefit by gaining 

 further experience in detecting and identifying 

 icebergs. 



Ice Patrol's present use of the com- 

 bined SLAR and FLAR system is appropriate 

 for the large spatial and temporal scale mis- 

 sion. However, FLAR has some features 

 which might make it useful for other ice detec- 

 tion missions. For example, the FLAR peri- 

 scope mode seems likely to be very useful for 

 smaller-scale glacial ice detection in the future 

 such as may be required to support specific 

 ship routing. However, much more work is 

 needed to define probability of iceberg detec- 

 tions as a function of search altitude, weather 

 conditions, and sea state. 



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