| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| AIRS | Operational | High spectral resolution measurement of temperature and humidity profiles in the atmosphere. Long-wave Earth surface emissivity. Cloud diagnostics. Trace gas profiles. Surface temperatures. | n/a |  |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Imager (INSAT 3D) | Operational | Cloud cover, severe storm warnings/monitoring day and night (type, amount, storm features), atmospheric radiance winds, atmospheric stability rainfall. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| IPM | Operational +/-15 % | Observation of the night-sky 135.6 nm oxygen airglow intensity for the retrieval of ionospheric total electrons and NmF2 (sensitivity ≥150 counts.s-1.R-1); and observation of the bright-day 135.6 nm oxygen air glow intensity and the nitrogen air glow intensity of LBH (140-180 nm）(sensitivity≥1 counts.s-1.R-1) for the retrieval of oxygen-nitrogen ratio at the ionospheric altitude. | n/a | |
| NISTAR | Operational | Measure the energy emitted and reflected by the Earth. | n/a | |
| VIIRS | Operational | Global observations of land, ocean, and atmosphere parameters: cloud/weather imagery, sea-surface temperature, ocean colour, land surface vegetation indices. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| FEI | Being developed | Provide images in a narrow spectral band centered at 10.5µm. | n/a | |
| Libera | Being developed | 5-year design mission. The mission focuses on understanding the flow of energy out of the planet and how it changes over time. | n/a | |
| TICFIRE | Being developed | Characterization of ice cloud properties including particle size, cloud optical depth and top height, and outgoing longwave radiation | n/a | |
| GKMI | Approved | 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 | |
| Land Surface Temperature Radiometer | Approved | VNIR/SWIR/TIR radiometer with three independent focal planes fed by a single telescope to acquire images of all land and coastal areas with high radiometric accuracy and spatial resolution. Acquistion are during day and night in TIR bands and during day in VNIR/SWIR bands.
Monitoring evapotranspiration (ET) rate at European field scale by capturing the variability of Land Surface Temperature (LST) (and hence ET) enabling more robust estimates of field-scale water productivity. Supporting a range of additional services benefitting from TIR observations (e.g. soil composition, coastal zone management, High-Temperature Events (HTE), urban heat islands). | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |