Should the aircraft's subsequent flight path bring the area being viewed to within 15 degrees of the aircraft centre-line, the radar would automatically switch to the normal ground-mapping mode.
In this new variant, the displayed resolution in ground-mapping mode is quadrupled, and is reported to be close to that offered by Sar techniques.
The resulting crude imagery limited the usefulness of radar ground-mapping modes. Although useful as a navigation aid, it is unable to show individual targets.