Abstract: The ground remote motion target detection is one of key techniques in infrared imaging defense. The ground remote motion target detection is a method which can automatic detection and capture the remote motion target by Infrared detector. It is difficult to extract the target from the complex background, because the target is distance, imaged area is small on infrared detector and easily blocked. A method can realize detect the ground remote motion target by rolling the area array infrared detector was presented. First, the motion compensation parameters were calculated through the image information and target first detection result was obtained through background update, then background and target motion information were obtained through the optical flow and target final detection result was obtained through calculating the relationship between background and target motion information. Experiments validate the proposed algorithm using a variety of scenarios; the results show that this method can expand the target search area by the rotating infrared detectors. Using the relevance of the movement information between background and targets effectively overcome the problems of the target obscured, goals overlap and parallax.