surface clutter

Unwanted radar or sonar wave reflection arising from the land or sea surface.

Noun

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

    Coordinate Terms: volume clutter