The invention discloses a linear frequency modulation radar signal processing method based on compressed sensing. The method comprises the steps of (1) emitting a linear frequency modulation signal to a radar and preprocessing an echo signal, which means that the deramping processing of the echo signal is carried out, a difference frequency signal is outputted, and a signal model of deramping processing is established in a time domain, (2) according to the sparsity of the difference frequency signal in a frequency domain, constructing a sparse conversion matrix, and establishing a sparse representation model of the radar echo signal, (3) constructing a measurement matrix, and realizing the projection transformation of a difference frequency sparse signal to a low dimensional space, and (4) using an orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm, reconstructing a radar difference frequency signal, and efficiently obtaining target information. Accoding to the method, the compression of radar echo signal data can be fundamentally realized, the change of a sparse model according to a radar observation distance is not needed, finally the target information is obtained, and the method is suitable for the echo signal processing of an actual radar.