Multiple-input-multiple-output radar superresolution three-dimensional imaging based on multidimensional smoothed L0

Abstract

By exploiting the sparsity of radar target image, it is hopeful to obtain a high-resolution target image in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar via a sparse representation (SR) method. However, for the three-dimensional (3-D) imaging, the conventional SR method has to convert the 3-D problem into the one-dimensional (1-D) problem. Thus, it will inevitably impose a heavy burden on the storage and computation. A multidimensional smoothed L0 (MD-SL0) algorithm is proposed based on the conventional smoothed L0 algorithm. The proposed MD-SL0 can directly apply to the multidimensional SR problem without transforming to the 1-D case. As a result, a MIMO radar 3-D imaging method via MD-SL0 is achieved with high computation efficiency and low storage burden. Finally, the effectiveness of the method is validated by the results of comparative experiments.