| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| BRLK S-range | Operational | Disaster monitoring, sea surface monitoring, information support of environmental managment | Imaging radar (SAR) |  |
| CSG SAR | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| GSA (1) | Operational | Land surface monitoring | n/a | |
| HiRI | Operational | Cartography, land use, risk, agriculture and forestry, civil planning and mapping, digital terrain models, defence. | High resolution optical imager | |
| MBEI | Operational | Multispectral scanner images of land surface. | High resolution optical imager | |
| MERSI | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | n/a | |
| MERSI-2 | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | n/a | |
| MERSI-3 | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | n/a | |
| MERSI-LL | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | n/a | |
| MERSI-S | Operational | Measurement of vegetation indexes and ocean colour. | n/a | |
| MIRS | Operational | Scanner images of land surface in middle infra-red range. | 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 | |
| MS | Operational | Vegetation and land cover, land cover change. | n/a | |
| MSI (Sentinel-2) | Operational | Optical high spatial resolution imagery over land and coastal areas for Copernicus operational services. | High resolution optical imager | |
| 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. | High resolution optical imager | |
| OLI-2 | Operational | Measures surface radiance, land cover state, and change (e.g., vegetation type). Used as multi-purpose imagery for land applications. | High resolution optical imager | |
| PAN (GF-1) | Operational | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land use, urban studies. | High resolution optical imager | |
| PAN (GF-2) | Operational | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land use, urban studies. | High resolution optical imager | |
| PAN CAMERA | Operational | Panchromatic data. | High resolution optical imager | |
| Paz SAR-X | Operational | High resolution X-band radar for security, land use, urban management, environmental monitoring, risk management. Different acquisition modes: Spotlight (5 x 5-10 km SSD =<1 m), Scansar (100 x 100 km, SSD <=15 m); Stripmode (strips of 30 x 30 km with SSD 3 m). | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| PSS | Operational | Panchromatic data for environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry. | High resolution optical imager | |
| SAR (RADARSAT-2) | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, ice and land surfaces. Used for monitoring of coastal zones, polar ice, sea ice, sea state, geological features, vegetation and land surface processes. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR (RCM) | Operational | All-weather, C-band data to support ecosystem monitoring, maritime surveillance and disaster management. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR 2000 | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR-L | Operational | Land, ocean, emergencies, soil moisture, interferometry, others. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| S-band SAR | Operational | SAR imagery for a range of applications including agriculture, maritime and forestry | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| Severyanin-M | Operational | Land and sea surface monitoring | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SLIM-6-22 | Operational | Visible and NIR imagery in support of disaster management - part of the Disaster Management constellation. | High resolution optical imager | |
| TIRS | Operational | Measures longwave thermal infrared surface emittance, land cover state, and change. Used as multipurpose imagery for land applications. | n/a | |
| TIRS-2 | Operational | Measures longwave thermal infrared surface emittance, land cover state, and change. Used as multipurpose imagery for land applications. TIRS-2 will adhere to the Landsat 8 TIRS instrument performance specifications but will be built to NASA Class-B instrument standards (including a 5-year design life). | n/a | |
| VIIRS | Operational | Global observations of land, ocean, and atmosphere parameters: cloud/weather imagery, sea-surface temperature, ocean colour, land surface vegetation indices. | n/a | |
| VNREDSat-1 MS | Operational | The VNREDSat 1 multispectral instrument is designed for land cover measurements and applications. | n/a | |
| WFV | Operational | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land use. | n/a | |
| AMSI | Being developed | Optical high spatial resolution imagery over land and coastal areas for Copernicus operational services. | High resolution optical imager | |
| AOLCI | Being developed | Visible and near-infrared hyperspectral radiometer supporting a wide range of Marine, Land, Atmosphere and Climate Services. Provides enhanced continutity of ocean colour and land colour measurements from OLCI and enhanced synergy with ASLSTR | n/a | |
| Compact Advanced Payload Wide Swath (CAS500-4) | Being developed | Agricultural and forest monitoring | High resolution optical imager | |
| 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. | n/a | |
| HSI | Being developed | Pushbroom-type grating Imaging Spectrometer with high Signal-to-noise Ratio and data uniformity to derive quantitative surface characteristics supporting the monitoring, implementation and improvement of a range of policies in the domain of raw materials, agriculture, soils, food security, biodiversity, environmental degradation and hazards, inland and coastal waters, snow, forestry and the urban environment | High resolution optical imager | |
| Land Surface Temperature Radiometer | Being developed | 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). | n/a | |
| L-band SAR | Being developed | L-band SAR instrument offering full polarimetry, high spatial resolution, high sensitivity, low ambiguity ratios and capability for repeat-pass & single-pass cross-track interferometry to measure surface deformation of vegetated terrain, soil moisture, land cover classification, crop type discrimination and its temporal analysis. Furthermore, it will monitor Polar ice sheets and ice caps, and the sea-ice conditions (i.e. type, drift, deformation, concentration, lead fraction), as well as contribute to the European maritime situational awareness. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| LOTUSat-1 SAR | Being developed | The LOTUSat-1 SAR instrument is designed for disaster and climate change countermeasure. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| CAR | Approved | Panchromatic and multispectral (Vis/IR) measurements with high spatial resolution, with stereo capability for DEM generation. Applications in emergencies in general, agriculture, land use/land cover, change detection, urban environment, cartography, topography. | High resolution optical imager | |
| Kasatka-R | Approved | Disaster monitoring, sea surface monitoring, information support of environmental managment | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| Advanced SAR | Proposed | High resolution microwave radar images for ice watch. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| 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. | High resolution optical imager | |
| VNIR | No longer considered | | n/a | |