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By processing the reference signal and the target echo signal coherently, the method is able to extract the target parameters, such as distance, velocity, and azimuth. However, the estimation performance is limited by the low signal-to-noise ratio. Therefore, a new cross-correlation algorithm for passive radar target detection is proposed in this paper. The echo signal received by the echo antenna and the reference signal received by the reference antenna are processed by differential operations to transform the single signal into multiple signals. Then, the differential reference signal is used to eliminate the signal phase in the differential echo signal. With the two-dimensional Fourier transform, the coherent accumulation of multiple signals is realized based on matched filtering of the single signal. This makes the secondary accumulation of the target signal coherent, while the interference part can only obtain incoherent secondary accumulation. In this way, the signal-to-noise ratio for target detection can be greatly improved. The paper presents the theoretical derivation of the algorithm and the quantitative analysis of its performance. 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