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Low pulse repetition frequency (PRF) is required for high-resolution wide-swath (HRWS) imaging, leading to inevitable problems of azimuth spectrum aliasing (ASA) and azimuth Doppler ambiguity (ADA). In this work, we propose a phase matching technique to solve the ASA problem in restoring the azimuth spectrum. A multi-stage compressive-sensing (CS) technique is also proposed to solve both ADA and ASA problems. Five similar types of cruising ship are simulated to verify the efficacy of the proposed approach, at different levels of signal-to-noise ratio. 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