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Given the prominent sparse nature of clutter spectra in the angle-Doppler domain, adopting sparse recovery algorithms has proven to be a feasible approach for accurately estimating high-resolution spatio-temporal two-dimensional clutter spectra. Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) is a pivotal tool in sparse signal reconstruction and has been previously utilized, yet it has demonstrated limited success in enhancing sparsity, resulting in insufficient robustness in local fitting. To significantly improve sparsity, this paper introduces a hierarchical Bayesian prior framework and derives iterative parameter update formulas through variational inference techniques. However, this algorithm encounters significant computational hurdles during the parameter update process. To overcome this obstacle, the paper proposes an enhanced Variational Bayesian Inference (VBI) method that leverages prior information on the rank of the temporal clutter covariance matrix to refine the parameter update formulas, thereby significantly reducing computational complexity. Furthermore, this method fully exploits the joint sparsity of the Multiple Measurement Vector (MMV) model to achieve greater sparsity without compromising accuracy, and employs a first-order Taylor expansion to eliminate grid mismatch in the dictionary. 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