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However, there are problems such as the ambiguities of point targets or extended targets caused by nonuniform sampling. A reconstructive method, Nonuniform Discrete Fourier Transform (NUDFT) has been presented in the current literature, but it is rather computationally expensive. In this paper, a modified sinc interpolation based on NUDFT is proposed, which is used to reconstruct the uniformly sampled echo in time domain. Since the interpolation kernel length is relatively short, it is more computationally efficient. Then, the two-step processing approach combined with the modified sinc interpolation is further presented, which has much better accuracy than that combined with the conventional sinc interpolation. 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