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However, the super-resolution imaging capability of MIMO radar is limited, and the resolution can only be doubled compared with the real aperture. In the radar forward-looking image, compared with the whole imaging scene, the target only occupies a small part. This sparsity of the target distribution provides the feasibility of applying the compressed sensing (CS) method to MIMO radar to further improve the forward-looking imaging resolution. At the same time, the forward-looking imaging method for a MIMO radar based on CS has the ability to perform single snapshot imaging, which avoids the problem of a motion supplement. However, the strong noise in the radar echo poses a challenge to the imaging method based on CS. Inspired by the low-rank properties of the received radar echoes and the generated images, and considering the existing information about sparse target distribution, a forward-looking super-resolution imaging model of a MIMO radar that combines sparse and double low-rank constraints is established to overcome strong noise and achieve robust forward-looking super-resolution imaging. In order to solve the multiple optimization problem, a forward-looking image reconstruction method based on the augmented Lagrangian multiplier (ALM) is proposed within the framework of the alternating direction multiplier method (ADMM). Finally, the results of the simulation and the measurement data show that the proposed method is quite effective at improving the azimuth resolution and robustness of forward-looking radar imaging compared with other existing methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15030609","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,20]],"date-time":"2023-01-20T02:52:21Z","timestamp":1674183141000},"page":"609","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Forward-Looking Super-Resolution Imaging of MIMO Radar via Sparse and Double Low-Rank Constraints"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Junkui","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Zheng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0687-7738","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Ran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Rong","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3688-6651","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jikai","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8033","DOI":"10.1109\/JSTARS.2021.3103802","article-title":"Forward-looking geometric configuration optimization design for spaceborne-airborne multistatic synthetic aperture radar","volume":"14","author":"Mao","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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