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Properly arranging multiple corner reflectors in an array can form dilution jamming that resembles ships, substantially enhancing the interference effect. This results in a significant decline in the precision attack efficiency of radar seekers. Hence, it is critical to accurately identify corner reflector array. The common recognition methods involve extracting features on the high-resolution range profile (HRRP) and polarization domain. However, the former is constrained by the number of corner reflectors, while the latter is affected by the accuracy of polarization measurement, both of which have limited performance on the identification of corner reflector array. In terms of the evident variations in physical structures, there must be differences in their scattering characteristics. To highlight the differences, this paper proposes a new method based on the concept of mismatched filtering, which involves changing the frequency modulation slope of the chirp signal in the filter. Then, the variance of width and intervals within a specific scope are extracted as features to characterize these differences, and an identification process is designed in combination with the support vector machine. The simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits stable discriminative performance and can effectively combat dilution jamming. Its accuracy rate exceeds 0.86 when the signal-to-noise ratio is greater than 0 dB. Compared to the HRRP methods, the recognition accuracy of the proposed algorithm improves 15% in relation to variations in the quantity of corner reflectors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16122114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,11]],"date-time":"2024-06-11T11:58:58Z","timestamp":1718107138000},"page":"2114","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["An Identification Method of Corner Reflector Array Based on Mismatched Filter through Changing the Frequency Modulation Slope"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-6811-8237","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Le","family":"Xia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6673-1004","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fulai","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Chen","family":"Pang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Nanjun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1794-5583","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Runlong","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiyong","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Yongzhen","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"738","article-title":"Electromagnetic scattering characteristics and radar identification of sea corner reflectors: Advances and prospects","volume":"12","author":"Li","year":"2023","journal-title":"J. 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