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However, in the presence of multiple sources, time-frequency aliasing will lead to serious cross-term interference during Doppler signal extraction, resulting in low localization performance. To solve this problem, a spaceborne passive synthetic aperture localization algorithm based on the multiple-stay detector HOUGH transform (MSD-HOUGH) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, an improved convolutional neural network based on the adaptive histogram equalization method (AHE-CNN) is proposed to achieve source number estimation. Then, the PSA Doppler equations are established in the HOUGH domain, which can suppress the cross-term interference of the multiple emitters. Meanwhile, a multiple-stay detector (MSD) is designed to reduce the pseudo-peaks in HOUGH domain. The estimated source number determines when the MSD will be terminated. Finally, a PSA cost function is established based on the estimated Doppler parameter to achieve signal source localization. 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