Application of Phase Diagram to Sampling Ratio Analysis in Sparse Microwave Imaging Change Detection

Phase diagram is an important method to evaluate sparse microwave imaging radar performance. Phase transition boundary can characterize the trend of accurate recovery rate visibly and clearly in terms of varied SNR, sparsity and sampling ratio. In sparse microwave imaging change detection, the small variation can be accurately extracted from multiple observations using distributed compressed sensing theory for the sparse scene. Phase diagram is introduced to evaluate the performance of change detection in different sampling ratio under the conditions that the sparsity and SNR has little change. Phase diagram can be used to describe the trend of phase transition boundary and to determine the data collection bounds. Furthermore, a series of simulations and experiments are conducted to verify the practicability of phase diagram. It is available to reduce the measurements and complexity of the sparse microwave imaging system.