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 0824756282, 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).

Related terms

• volume clutter

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