First experimental results for a WiFi-based passive forward scatter radar

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the potentiality to exploit a passive forward scatter radar (PFSR) based on WiFi transmissions for vehicle classification. In particular, a procedure to extract the vehicle signatures from the received signal is presented. The preliminary results obtained by means of an experimental setup developed and fielded at University of Rome "La Sapienza" show that different targets yield quite different signature shapes that can be fruitfully exploited by a classification stage according to a reasonable strategy.