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However, in CSAR imaging, the result is to be defocused when the height of an object deviates from a reference height. Existing approaches for this problem rely on digital elevation models (DEMs) for error compensation. It is difficult and costly to collect DEM using specific equipment, while the inversion of DEM based on echo is computationally intensive, and the accuracy of results is unsatisfactory. Inspired by multi-focus image fusion in optical images, a spatial-domain fusion method is proposed based on the sum of modified Laplacian (SML) and guided filter. After obtaining CSAR images in a stack of different reference heights, an all-in-focus image can be computed by the proposed method. First, the SMLs of all source images are calculated. Second, take the rule of selecting the maximum value of SML pixel by pixel to acquire initial decision maps. Secondly, a guided filter is utilized to correct the initial decision maps. Finally, fuse the source images and decision maps to obtain the result. A comparative experiment has been processed to verify the exceptional performance of the proposed method. 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