surface clutter

noun

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

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Meanings

nounsurface clutter (uncountable)
  1. uncountableengineeringUnwanted 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, page 405

Translations

Finnish maavälke
  • maavälkeunwanted reflection
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