| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| Advanced GOCI | Operational | Ocean colour information, coastal zone monitoring, land resources monitoring. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer |  |
| GSA (1) | Operational | Land surface monitoring | n/a | |
| HSI-2 (HJ-2A) | Operational | Hyperspectral measurements for environment and disaster management operations. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| MERSI | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| MERSI-2 | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| MERSI-3 | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| MERSI-LL | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| MERSI-S | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| MISR | Operational | Measurements of global surface albedo, aerosol and vegetation properties. Also provides multi-angle bidirectional data (1% angle-to-angle accuracy) for cloud cover and reflectances at the surface and aerosol opacities. Global and local modes. | n/a | |
| MODIS | Operational | Data on biological and physical processes on the surface of the Earth and in the lower atmosphere, and on global dynamics. Surface temperatures of land and ocean, chlorophyll fluorescence, land cover measurements, cloud cover (day and night). | n/a | |
| OCI | Operational | Ocean color slit-grating imaging spectrometer/radiometer for measuring top of atmosphere reflectance which is used to estimate ocean leaving light that contains information on biological components plus aerosol and cloud propertiesl | n/a | |
| OCM (Oceansat-3) | Operational | Ocean colour data, Estimation of phytoplankton concentration, identification of potential fishing zones, assessment of primary productivity. | n/a | |
| OLCI | Operational | Marine and land services. | n/a | |
| OLI | Operational | Measures surface radiance, land cover state, and change (e.g., vegetation type). Used as multi-purpose imagery for land applications. | n/a | |
| OLI-2 | Operational | Measures surface radiance, land cover state, and change (e.g., vegetation type). Used as multi-purpose imagery for land applications. | n/a | |
| SGLI | Operational +/-100 % | Medium resolution multi-spectral imaging of land, ocean and atmosphere. SGLI-VNR is an optical sensor capable of multi-channel nadir observation at wavelengths from near-UV to NIR and forward or backward polarization observation at red and near infrared wavelengths (Push-broom scanning). SGLI-IRS is an optical sensor capable of multi-channel nadir observation at wavelengths from SWIR to TIR wavelengths (Cross-track scanning). | n/a | |
| SSTM-1 (Oceansat-3) | Operational | TIR and OCM combination will support joint analysis for operational potential fishing zones. | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| 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 | |
| GLIMR Instrument | Being developed | GLIMR will make observations of rapidly evolving phytoplankton dynamics and hazards such as Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and other selected coastal regions of North and South America | Multi-purpose imaging Vis/IR radiometer | |
| VIS-NIR | Approved | Ocean Colour - Open ocean, coastal & in-land waters. | n/a | |
| LandIS | Proposed | Measures surface radiance, land cover state and change (e.g., vegetation type), and longwave termal infrared surface emittance. Used as multi-purpose imagery for land applications. | n/a | |