This document proposes a holistic approach to reconstruct data in ocean sensor networks using compression sensing. It involves two key aspects:
1) A node reordering scheme is developed to improve the sparsity of signals in the discrete cosine transform or Fourier transform domain, reducing the number of measurements needed for accurate reconstruction.
2) An improved sparse adaptive tracking algorithm is adopted to estimate the sparse degree and then reconstruct the signal in a step-by-step manner, gradually converging on an accurate reconstruction even with unknown sparsity.
Simulation results show the proposed method can effectively reduce signal sparsity and accurately reconstruct signals, especially in cases of unknown sparsity.