This research is a revisit of work done in 1959 under orders from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard to evaluate methods of detecting icebergs by remote sensing. During the impingement of icebergs on the North Atlantic shipping lanes and elsewhere, reports of collisions with icebergs in spite of the modern radar systems led the International ice Patrol to launch an investigation of the reasons radar might not be dependable. Budinger determined that cold iceberg ice had a very low dielectric coefficient (3.05) as inferred by radar measurements at sea on 90 icebergs. The revisit is a confirmation of these data along with the data on the magnitude of wind effect on iceberg drift trajectories. As maritime activities increase in the Arctic Ocean and waterways of Canadian Territories, ships and drilling platforms are jeopardy from drifting icebergs and ice floes whose detection and drift trajectories are not well understood. The goal of this work is to define the sea surface and atmospheric temperature conditions on which detection depends and to propose guidance rules for navigation in poor visibility conditions.