back-echo reflection

back-echo reflection

[′bak ‚ek·ō ri′flek·shən]

(electronics)

A radar echo produced by radiation reflected to the target by a large, fixed obstruction; that is, the ray path is from antenna to obstruction to target to antenna, instead of antenna to target to antenna.

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