Abstract: For difficult transmission and storage of a large of video monitoring image data of coal mine underground, an image compression method was proposed which was based on improved compressive sending algorithm. Firstly, collected images data are spared by Coiflet2 wavelet transform principle. Secondly, the spared data is measured by measurement matrix to get measurement data. Finally, the images are refactored by orthogonal matching tracking algorithm and inverse transformation. The experimental results show that the method can effectively compress image and reconstruct the image.