SAR

KAUST research develops HAPS-borne radar for persistent, real-time disaster monitoring

3 min read · Sat, Oct 3 2026

HAPSs radar Sensing disaster monitoring SAR

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a joint trajectory-and-resource optimization framework that enables a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) to carry out synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing while carefully managing the limited energy available for flight, radar operation and communication. The team, including Bang Huang, Ki-Hong Park, Xiaowei Pang and Mohamed-Slim Alouini, investigated how solar-powered HAPS aircraft operating in the stratosphere, typically around 20 to 30 kilometers above the ground, could carry SAR payloads to

Monitoring Environmental Change in Saudi Arabia from Space: Methane Emissions, Mangrove Ecosystems, and Ground Deformation

Abdulrahman Aljurbua, KAUST Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Jun 9, 11:00 - 12:00

B3 R5220

remote sensing remote sensing applications Signal processing SAR

Satellite remote sensing for environmental monitoring, climate studies and hazard assessment in Saudi Arabia.

KAUST Discovery Article about SAR

1 min read · Sun, Apr 17 2016

SAR stroke authorship recognition Kaust Discovery CGF 2015

Our recent work on stroke authorship recognition (SAR) was highlighted in the KAUST Discovery webpage. This work was published in CGF2015.