List of Abbreviations and Acronyms 



AOR Area of Responsibility 



ASAR Advanced Synthetic-Aperture Radar 



AXBT Air-deployed expendable BathyThermograph 



BAPS iceBerg Analysis and Prediction System 



CAMSLANT Communications Area Master Station atLANTic 



CCG Canadian Coast Guard 



CIS Canadian Ice Service 



DFO Department of Fisheries and Oceans 



ENVISAT ENVIronmental SATellite 



FLAR Forward-Looking Airborne Radar 



FTP File Transfer Protocol 



GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security 



HE High Frequency 



HH Horizontal transmit Horizontal receive 



HMCS Her Majesty's Canadian Ship 



HV Horizontal transmit Vertical receive 



IDS Iceberg Detection Software 



IIP International Ice Patrol 



INMARSAT INtemational MARitime SATellite (also Inmarsat) 



IRD Ice Reconnaissance Detachment 



IS Incident Swath 



LAKI Limit of All Known Ice 



MANICE M ANual of standard procedures for observing and reporting ICE conditions 



M Meter 



M/V Motor Vessel 



NIC National Ice Center 



NTIS National Technical Information Service 



NM Nautical Mile 



PAL Provincial Aerospace Limited 



POC Probability Of Classification 



POD Probability Of Detection 



RADAR Radio Detection And Ranging (also radar) 



RMS Royal Mail Steamer 



SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea 



SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar 



SST Sea Surface Temperature 



WIM What- If Model 



WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment 



