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Existing tensor-based coherent direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation methods adopting spatial smoothing to decorrelate the coherent tensor statistics usually lead to a poor decorrelation performance. In this letter, we propose a structured tensor reconstruction method for two-dimensional coherent DOA estimation, which then avoids the inefficient spatial smoothing. In particular, after investigating the structural property of the four-dimensional incoherent covariance tensor, we propose a tensorial Hermitian Toeplitz mapping rule to reconstruct a structured covariance tensor from the rank-deficient coherent covariance tensor statistics. It is theoretically proved that, the reconstructed covariance tensor admits a decorrelated canonical polyadic model with a tensorial Hermitian Toeplitz structure, whose decomposition ensures a closed-form coherent DOA estimation. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by …