When the infrared radiation of an object transmits through the air, its extinction quantity can be described by the extinction-coefficient which differs with different wavelengths. So the ratio of two different bands radiation energy will change according to the distance. Based on this law, the infrared double-color mono-station passive positioning method for cooperative targets and non-cooperative targets was designed and proved by example calculations. The analysis was performed on the influences of the targets temperature and the extinction-coefficient difference on the positioning performance, and it shows that higher targets temperature brings better positioning effect. Calculations show that the passive positioning method using 0.75~3/3~5μm as the working bands is effective while the target is nearer than 20km and hotter than 1000K and the method is not good enough when the targets' temperature is below 500K.