User:Idegani

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Isaac Degani

Isaac in the SAC

Personal

My name is Isaac Degani and I go to Mepham High School in Bellmore, NY. I'm in 12th grade, and heard about MARIACHI from my physics teacher, Mr. Bill Leacock. I spent my last Summer working on a research project with MARIACHI's radar system, and was named an Intel semifinalist for the paper I submitted. I run both Track and Cross Country, play the guitar, the cello and sing as well.

This is my guitar, her name is eloise. She's shy but once you get to know her, she plays real' good

Research

I wanted to add to the Mariachi Radar system, which will hopefully one day be used to detect UHECR's, so I worked on an algorithm to sort through data. For an overview on the Mariachi Radar, follow this link : Radar

I built a SPIDA-2 Type Dipole antenna with Mr. Leacock, and hooked it up to a receiver in my backyard. It was tuned to a station in North Carolina. Here are some pictures of the construction, and the final product:Antenna Pictures

The data was then streamed from the antenna into Spectrum Laboratory, to create waterfall diagrams. The Mariachi website has a live waterfall diagram feed from its radar[1].

I then wrote a program using an image recognition algorithm to analyze the signals. It could detect airplanes, meteors, and potentially lightning and cosmic rays.