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Current research mainly finds statistical features such as the mean and variance of parameters from pluses as the input features of the classifier. However, data noise in intercepted pulse signals greatly interferes with the accuracy of the extracted statistical features and seriously affects the recognition rate of radar emitters. In this paper, we proposed a method of radar emitter recognition. We first clustered parameter sets to establish a set of frequent items and their corresponding clustering centers. Next, we concatenated the clustering centers of each frequent item into a feature vector associated with the data volume dimensions. Then, we built a decision tree classification model based on the feature vector, and finally we used the learned model for the recognition of unknown radar pulse trains. The simulation results show that the proposed method has better robustness when applied to a variety of data volumes and data noise scenarios compared with long short-term memory (LSTM) and support vector machine (SVM) methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14184468","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,8]],"date-time":"2022-09-08T04:18:32Z","timestamp":1662610712000},"page":"4468","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Radar Emitter Recognition Based on Parameter Set Clustering and Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Tao","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuo","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhangmeng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"},{"name":"Tianjin Institute of Advanced Technology, Tianjin 300450, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fucheng","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1185","DOI":"10.1109\/TPAMI.2005.166","article-title":"Online clustering algorithms for radar emitter classification","volume":"27","author":"Liu","year":"2005","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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