| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| AMI | Operational | Continuous monitoring capability for the near real-time generation of high-resolution meteorological products and long-term change analysis of land/sea surface temperature and cloud coverage. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer |  |
| AVHRR/3 | Operational | Measurements of land and sea surface temperature, cloud cover, snow and ice cover, soil moisture and vegetation indices. Data also used for volcanic eruption monitoring. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| CERES | Operational | Long term measurement of the Earth's radiation budget and atmospheric radiation from the top of the atmosphere to the surface; provision of an accurate and self-consistent cloud and radiation database. | n/a | |
| ERM-1 | Operational | Measures Earth radiation gains and losses on regional, zonal and global scales. | n/a | |
| ERM-2 | Operational | Measures Earth radiation gains and losses on regional, zonal and global scales. | n/a | |
| GERB | Operational | Measures long and short wave radiation emitted and reflected from the Earth's surface, clouds and top of atmosphere. Full Earth disk, all channels in 5 minutes. | n/a | |
| GOME-2 | Operational | Measurement of total column amounts and stratospheric and tropospheric profiles of ozone. Also amounts of H20, NO2, OClO, BrO, SO2 and HCHO. | n/a | |
| HIRS/4 | Operational | Atmospheric temperature profiles and data on cloud parameters, humidity soundings, water vapour, total ozone content, and surface temperatures. Same as HIRS/3, with 10 km IFOV. | n/a | |
| Imager | Operational | Measures cloud cover, atmospheric radiance, winds, atmospheric stability, rainfall estimates. Used to provide severe storm warnings/ monitoring day and night (type, amount, storm features). | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| IRAS | Operational | Atmospheric sounding for weather forecasting. | n/a | |
| MSU-MR | Operational | Parameters of clouds, snow, ice and land cover, vegetation, surface temperature, fire detection. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| SBUV/2 | Operational | Data on trace gases including vertical profile ozone, and solar irradiance and total ozone concentration measurements. | n/a | |
| SIM-2 | Operational | Solar irradiance monitoring. | n/a | |
| TIRS (PREFIRE) | Operational | Pushbroom spectroradiometric imagers in highly inclined orbits to provide spectral fluxes, column-water vapor, surface emissivity and broadband radiances over majority of thermal wavelengths. | n/a | |
| CWFMS | Being developed | Measurements are: Fire Radiative Power (FRP), hotspot locations, rate of spread, burned area mapping. Data products generated: 1) Fire maps, showing location, extent, and timing of forest fire events; 2) Fire characteristics, such as fire line intensity, rate of spread and fuel consumption; 3) Plume dynamics through smoke transport maps and plume heights; 4) Mass of carbon released into atmosphere. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| GXS | Being developed | | n/a | |
| BBR (EarthCARE) | Approved | Top of the atmosphere radiances and radiative flux. | n/a | |
| Advanced MSU-MR | Proposed | Parameters of clouds, snow, ice and land cover, vegetation, surface temperature, fire detection. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |