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However, since the imaging mode of SAR is side-by-side, the TomoSAR point cloud of a single orbit cannot achieve a complete observation of buildings. It is difficult for existing methods to extract the same features, as well as to use the overlap rate to achieve the alignment of the homologous TomoSAR point cloud and the cross-source TomoSAR point cloud. Therefore, this paper proposes a robust alignment method for TomoSAR point clouds in urban areas. First, noise points and outlier points are filtered by statistical filtering, and density of projection point (DoPP)-based projection is used to extract TomoSAR building point clouds and obtain the facade points for subsequent calculations based on density clustering. Subsequently, coarse alignment of source and target point clouds was performed using principal component analysis (PCA). Lastly, the rotation and translation coefficients were calculated using the angle of the normal vector of the opposite facade of the building and the distance of the outer end of the facade projection. The experimental results verify the feasibility and robustness of the proposed method. For the homologous TomoSAR point cloud, the experimental results show that the average rotation error of the proposed method was less than 0.1\u00b0, and the average translation error was less than 0.25 m. 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