Abstract:The Minimum Mean-Square based methods like Principal Component Analysis(PCA) are widely used in Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) target recognition. However the L2-norm based criteria is prone to be affected by the outliers, which is not good for the target feature extraction in SAR imagery. To solve this problem,a L1-norm based bilateral two Dimension Principal Component Analysis(B2DPCA-L1) is proposed. The L1-norm version of B2DPCA is robust to outliers, and reduces the dimension of feature matrix and improves the target recognition rate as well. Experiments show that the proposed method has a higher target recognition rate in SAR imagery compared with the traditional L2-norm based feature extraction methods.