The invention discloses a self-adaptive high-frequency ground
wave radar target detection method and
system, and relates to the technical field of target detection. The target detection method comprises the following steps: performing two-dimensional
Fourier transform on high-frequency ground
wave radar echoes to obtain a distance Doppler spectrum so as to distinguish a
shore-based
radar from a shipborne
radar; preliminarily detecting a
shore-based
radar spectrum through a constant
false alarm detector to obtain a suspicious target index, traversing the index to divide connected regions, and judging single and group targets; positioning, tracking, category reasoning and tracking optimization are carried out after single-target secondary detection; and after the center of the group target is determined, positioning, tracking, identifying and associating AIS data. And carrying out preliminary detection on a ship-borne radar spectrum, then intercepting an image, compensating and denoising, detecting and determining a target unit index again, positioning, tracking and associating AIS data to obtain a category, predicting a
motion direction, adjusting a posture, and continuing tracking. The problem that an existing high-frequency ground
wave radar is large in error in the ocean target detection process is solved, and the accuracy of ocean target detection is improved.