Indoor radar cross section measurements of aluminum hollow rod for ultra wideband applications

Abstract

Scattering signals, which scatter from furniture items, walls or objects in an indoor environment, affect on the received signals. Furthermore, the scatters have an effect on the radio wave propagation. Therefore, the effects of the scattering signals from the items on the radio wave propagation are investigation and analysis. For this reason, this paper presents an effect between the scattering signals and an aluminum hollow rod in a frequency range of 3.0–11.0 GHz of ultra wideband (UWB) and each angel. Then, the aluminum hollow rod was moved to follow each location in order to test for the UWB applications. An experimental set-up was set by using a vector network analyzer (VNA) for bistatic radar cross section (RCS) measurements in an indoor environment. Then, the scattering signals from the aluminum hollow rod were analyzed in term of the RCS. After that, the RCS was applied to the UWB applications.