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With the orthogonality of the DDMA waveform, transmit channels are separated at the receiver. Afterwards, a pre-processed operation for definition domains of different transmit channels is put forward to transform all definition domains into the same one. Thereafter, by multiplying measured data in a transmit channel by the complex conjugation of those in the other channel, a coupling phase term between the ambiguous range and the Doppler can be generated. So, utilizing the coupling phase, the echoes of different ambiguous regions can be distinguished in the slow-time domain, and they are extracted by designing time domain passband filters. Moreover, the images of different extracted ambiguous regions can be reconstructed to compose the whole unambiguous image. 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