Sparse Bayesian Learning for Distributed Passive Radar Imaging via Covariance Sparse Representation

Due to low imaging cost and robustness, the distributed passive radars using multiple transmitters and multiple receivers to observe targets have become a hot research. In the case of low SNR, the imaging accuracy of the distributed passive radar imaging model via Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) sparse reconstruction is low. For this problem, a framework consisting of sparse representation of the received multi-snapshot radar signal covariance matrix, Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) based reconstruction algorithm has been built. At the end of paper, through the simulation experiment, the imaging results of the original data and covariance data at low SNR are compared, and the reconstruction errors under different SNR are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.