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Since the signal to be reconstructed is sparse for air targets, many CS-based imaging algorithms using a sparse array are proposed. However, most of those algorithms assume that the scatterers are exactly located at the pre-discretized grids, which will not hold in real scene. Aiming at finding an accurate solution to off-grid target imaging, we propose an off-grid 3D imaging method based on improved sparse Bayesian learning (SBL). Besides, the Bayesian Cram\u00e9r-Rao Bound (BCRB) for off-grid bias estimator is provided. Different from previous algorithms, the proposed algorithm adopts a three-stage hierarchical sparse prior to introduce more degrees of freedom. Then variational expectation maximization method is applied to solve the sparse recovery problem through iteration, during each iteration joint sparsity is used to improve efficiency. Experimental results not only validate that the proposed method outperforms the existing off-grid imaging methods in terms of accuracy and resolution, but have compared the root mean square error with corresponding BCRB, proving effectiveness of the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10030369","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,27]],"date-time":"2018-02-27T14:18:08Z","timestamp":1519741088000},"page":"369","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Sparse Bayesian Learning Based Three-Dimensional Imaging Algorithm for Off-Grid Air Targets in MIMO Radar Array"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6914-190X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zekun","family":"Jiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Chibiao","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Xingdong","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Longyong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Fubo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"436","DOI":"10.1109\/83.908519","article-title":"Three-dimensional ISAR imaging of maneuvering targets using three receivers","volume":"10","author":"Wang","year":"2001","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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