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Samuel Prager

PhDEE Student, University of Southern California
Verified email at usc.edu
Cited by 245

Wireless subnanosecond RF synchronization for distributed ultrawideband software-defined radar networks

S Prager, MS Haynes… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a distributed and decentralized synchronization algorithm for
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The proposed method achieves subnanosecond …

Ultrawideband synthesis for high-range-resolution software-defined radar

S Prager, T Thrivikraman, MS Haynes… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a design for implementing an ultrawideband (UWB) software-defined
radar (SDRadar) using a bandwidth reconstruction technique, called frequency stacking, for a …

Snow depth retrieval with an autonomous UAV-mounted software-defined radar

S Prager, G Sexstone, D McGrath… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present results from a field campaign to measure seasonal snow depth at Cameron
Pass, Colorado, using a synthetic ultrawideband software-defined radar (SDRadar) …

Wireless sensor network informed UAV path planning for soil moisture mapping

R Akbar, S Prager, AR Silva… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive and targeted allocation of mobile sensing agents, in the form of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) with software defined radar (UAV-SDRadar) payloads, enable mapping of …

Studies of Mass-Loss Rates and Stellar Atmospheres on the Asymptotic Giant Branch

HA Prager - 2023 - search.proquest.com
… This thesis is dedicated to my late father, Henry John Prager, who throughout my life
encouraged my interest in mathematics and physics, who I could always confide in and seek …

Application of ultra-wideband synthesis in software defined radar for UAV-based landmine detection

S Prager, M Moghaddam - IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we demonstrate the capability of an ultra-wideband software defined radar (SDRadar)
implemented in commercial USRP SDR hardware to produce high-resolution images …

UAV-borne bistatic SAR and InSAR experiments in support of STV and SDC target observables

SY Jeon, B Hawkins, S Prager… - IGARSS 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ongoing Distributed Aperture Radar Tomographic Sensors (DARTS) project at NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory aims to mature and demonstrate multi-static SAR measurements for …

Development of ultra-wideband software defined radar testbed to support SAR tomographic mission formulation

S Prager, B Hawkins, M Anderson… - IGARSS 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent innovations in small satellite, ultra-wideband direct RF sampling, and synchronization
technologies have made multistatic and MIMO coherent SAR constellations a feasible …

Modeling the effects of oscillator phase noise and synchronization on multistatic sar tomography

E Loria, S Prager, I Seker, R Ahmed… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent results have highlighted the potential ability of bistatic and multistatic synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) tomographers to measure vegetation structure and surface topography. …

Distributed aperture radar tomographic sensors (DARTS) to map surface topography and vegetation structure

…, R Ahmed, BP Hawkins, S Prager… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed Aperture Radar Tomographic Sensors (DARTS) is a mission concept being
studied at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in collaboration with the California Institute of …