Reverberation clutter induced by discrete strong scatterers is an important reason which will increase the false alarm probability of active detection, which seriously affects the performance of active sonar detection. In this paper, taking seamount as an example, the theoretical modeling and simulation of the clutter in the deep-sea induced by seamount are carried out by using the ray-mode theory. Through ray-mode approximation, the acoustic rays in surface and reverse channels are ignored, a theoretical model is proposed to calculate the seabed reverberation clutter induced by seamounts, and the physical mechanism of how the seabed reverberation clutter is induced by seamounts is analyzed. The results show that reverberation intensity will increase in the location of seamount and induce discrete reverberation clutter. The greater the fluctuation of seamount, the greater the reverberation clutter intensity.
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