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Therefore, it is essential to identify the channel environment prior to localization to preserve the high-accuracy Line-of-Sight (LOS) ranging results and correct or reject the NLOS ranging results with positive bias. Aiming at the problem of the low accuracy and poor generalization ability of NLOS\/LOS identification methods based on Channel Impulse Response (CIR) at present, the multilayer Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) combined with Channel Attention Module (CAM) for NLOS\/LOS identification method is proposed. Firstly, the CAM is embedded in the multilayer CNN to extract the time-domain data features of the original CIR. Then, the global average pooling layer is used to replace the fully connected layer for feature integration and classification output. In addition, the public dataset from the European Horizon 2020 Programme project eWINE is used to perform comparative experiments with different structural models and different identification methods. The results show that the proposed CNN-CAM model has a LOS recall of 92.29%, NLOS recall of 87.71%, accuracy of 90.00%, and F1-score of 90.22%. 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