Using the sparse property of the signal from a marine micromotion target
the extraction and detection of micromotion signatures in sparse domain are studied.An algorithm for sea clutter suppression and micromotion target detection is proposed based on the morphological component analysis (MCA).The algorithm takes full advantage of the morphological differences between sea clutter and micro-Doppler signal
and can separate them via sparse representation of different source signals using different dictionaries.Moreover
the proposed sea clutter suppression method in sparse domain can achieve both target's energy accumulation and sea clutter suppression with improved signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR).Simulated and real data all verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.