The invention discloses a multi-target direct positioning method without
signal source number
estimation, which comprises the following steps of: performing
data acquisition on a plurality of targets by using a distributed receiving
station, and constructing a joint receiving
signal model of each observation
station in a distributed array scene by using receiving signals of the targets; constructing a space-
time correlation matrix by using the autocorrelation coefficients of the
target signal at different time intervals and the joint space steering vector of each receiving
station to the target according to the joint
signal receiving model of each observation station; setting interference parameters of position
estimation, and constructing a direct positioning cost function by using the interference parameters, the space-
time correlation matrix and the joint space steering vector at the assumed position; and performing grid point division on the effective monitoring area of the receiving station, solving the direct positioning cost function for different grid points, and obtaining a position
estimation result of each target on the grid points. According to the method, the problems of
low resolution, poor robustness, priori information dependence and the like of a classic
algorithm in a current multi-target positioning scene are solved.