| Detailed Measurement | Description* | Instruments | Timeline |
Active Fire Detection
Link:   | Techniques that map active (or flaming) fires. | 8 instruments |  |
Fire fractional cover
Link: | Fraction of a land area where fire is occurring - Physical unit [ % ], Accuracy unit [ % ] | 36 instruments | |
| Glacier topography | Relates to glacier thickness typically found in mid to high latitudes with a volume/area coverage much smaller than an ice-sheet. [Unit of measurement - cm] | 4 instruments | |
| Land surface imagery | Level-1 product (not a geophysical parameter). High-resolution imagery covering wavelengths in the range 0.4-1 µm (cloud-affected) or 1-10 GHz (SAR, all-weather) - Accuracy expressed as Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) at the Nyquist spatial wavelength (twice the resolution). Actually [ MTF-1 ] is used, so that smaller figures correspond to better performance, as usual. | 118 instruments | |
| Mineral Type | A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and abiogenic in origin. Whereas a rock can be an aggregate of different minerals, a mineral has one specific chemical composition. There are over 5,300 known mineral species. In remote sensing, specific minerals can be detected by their spectral signatures and other characteristics. | 6 instruments | |
| Surface Coherent Change Detection | Techniques that exploit the changes between two or several radar images of the same scene, in conditions where there is measurable coherence between at least a fraction of a pair of images, to detect subtle differences in the surface condition that can be related to sub-wavelength motions, surface properties changes or sub-pixel disturbances. | 4 instruments | |