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In terms of the elevation resolution, UMUSIC provides an improvement over standard MUSIC by utilizing the conjugate of the complex sample data and converting the complex covariance matrix into a real matrix. The combination of UMUSIC and fully-polarimetric data permits a further reduction of the noise of the sample covariance matrix, which is obtained through pixel averaging of multiple two-dimensional (2D) images. Considering the consistency of four polarizations, this algorithm not only makes scattering centers have the same estimated height in four polarizations, but it also improves the estimation accuracy. Simulation results show that this algorithm outperforms the popular distributed compressed sensing (DCS). 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