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^[1], →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).

Related terms

• volume clutter

Translations

unwanted reflection

• Finnish: maavälke