Moving target detection method based on CUR‐RPCA for missing array elements

Abstract

Moving target detection performance is seriously affected by missing array elements for multichannel synthetic aperture radar (Multi-SAR) systems. Meanwhile, there is a contradiction between the accuracy of data recovery and the computational burden in traditional methods. To solve the problems, a moving target detection method based on CUR-RPCA for missing array elements is proposed in this paper. First, key nodes of the echo data are extracted and rearranged into a low-rank matrix. Then we uses the low-rank characteristic to complete key nodes of data. Subsequently, complete echo data is constructed by utilising recovered key nodes of data and CUR decomposition. Therefore using the ideas of CUR and RPCA, a novel optimization problem is constructed to achieve separation of moving targets and clutter while recovering data. In addition, only key nodes of the data is completed to achieve the performance of all data recovery, so that the disadvantage of low computational efficiency has been overcome for traditional matrix completion methods. Finally, the superior clutter suppression performance of the proposed method is verified by several numerical simulations and comparative studies.