surface clutter

English

Noun

surface clutter (uncountable)

  1. (engineering) Unwanted radar or sonar wave reflection arising from the land or sea surface.
    • 2004, Rajeev Bansal, Handbook of Engineering Electromagnetics‎, →ISBN, page 405:
      Unwanted echoes usually occur as distributed clutter, as surface clutter (such as land and sea echoes) or as volume clutter (such as rain, chaff).
  • volume clutter

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