| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| AEISS | Operational | High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring. | High resolution optical imager |  |
| AEISS-A | Operational | High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring. | High resolution optical imager | |
| ASTER | Operational | Surface and cloud imaging with high spatial resolution, stereoscopic observation of local topography, cloud heights, volcanic plumes, and generation of local surface digital elevation maps. Surface temperature and emissivity. ASTER SWIR detectors are no longer functioning due to anomalously high SWIR detector temperatures. ASTER SWIR data acquired since April 2008 are not useable, and show saturation of values and severe striping. All attempts to bring the SWIR bands back to life have failed, and no further action is envisioned. | High resolution optical imager | |
| ATLAS | Operational | Provide date on ice sheet height and sea ice thickness, land altitude, aerosol height distributions, cloud height and boundary layer height. | n/a | |
| AWiFS | Operational | Vegetation and crop monitoring, resource assessment (regional scale), forest mapping, land cover/ land use mapping, and change detection. | n/a | |
| C-Band SAR | Operational | Marine core services, land monitoring and emergency services. Monitoring sea ice zones and arctic environment. Surveillance of marine environment, monitoring land surface motion risks, mapping of land surfaces (forest, water and soil, agriculture), mapping in support of humanitarian aid in crisis situations. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| CCD (ZY Series) | Operational | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land use. | n/a | |
| COSI | Operational | SAR for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| C-SAR | Operational | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land use, urban studies. | 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) | |
| Geoton-L1 (2) | Operational | Multispectral images of land surfaces and Oceans. | High resolution optical imager | |
| High Resolution Optical Sensor (CAS500-1) | Operational | Cartography, land use and planning | High resolution optical imager | |
| HiRI | Operational | Cartography, land use, risk, agriculture and forestry, civil planning and mapping, digital terrain models, defence. | High resolution optical imager | |
| HRMX | Operational | For crops and vegetation dynamics, natural resources census, disaster management and large scale mapping of themes. | High resolution optical imager | |
| Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) | Operational | Swath mapping radar altimeter that provides measurements for surface water. | n/a | |
| LISS-III (Resourcesat) | Operational | Data used for vegetation type assessment, resource assessment, crop stress detection, crop production forecasting, forestry, land use and land cover change. | High resolution optical imager | |
| LISS-IV | Operational | Vegetation monitoring, improved crop discrimination, crop yield, disaster monitoring and rapid assessment of natural resources. | High resolution optical imager | |
| MSC | Operational | High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring. | High resolution optical imager | |
| NAOMI (PAN) | Operational | NAOMI - PAN (0.5m GSD, 10.3km Swath) is a TMA opto-mechanical instrument employing a line scanning technique. Data is used for various applications including cartography, land use planning and management, national security, etc. | High resolution optical imager | |
| PALSAR-2 | Operational | Disaster monitoring, land monitoring, agricultural monitoring, natural resource exploration, global forest monitoring, potential use and interferometry. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| PAN (Cartosat-2A/2B) | Operational | High resolution stereo images for large scale (better than 1:0000) mapping applications, urban applications, GIS ingest. | High resolution optical imager | |
| PAN (Cartosat-2E) | Operational | High resolution stereo images for large scale (better than 1:0000) mapping applications, urban applications, GIS ingest. | 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 | |
| POSEIDON-3B Altimeter | Operational | Nadir viewing sounding radar for provision of real-time high precision sea surface topography, ocean circulation and wave height data. | n/a | |
| POSEIDON-3C Altimeter | Operational | Nadir viewing sounding radar for provision of real-time high precision sea surface topography, ocean circulation and wave height data. | n/a | |
| Poseidon-4 Altimeter | Operational | Nadir viewing sounding radar for provision of real-time high-precision sea surface topography, ocean circulation and wave height data. | n/a | |
| 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) | |
| SIRAL | Operational | Marine ice and terrestrial ice sheet thickness measurement. | n/a | |
| SRAL | Operational | Marine and land services. | n/a | |
| TOP (PAN) | Operational | THEOS Optical Payload - PAN (2m GSD, 22km Swath) is a cassegrain type opto-mechanical instrument employing a line scanning technique. Data is used for various applications including cartography, land use planning and management, national security, etc. | High resolution optical imager | |
| WFV | Operational | Earth resources, environmental monitoring, land use. | n/a | |
| WPM | Operational | Agriculture; Forestry; Geology; Natural disaster management; Cartography; Environment monitoring; Fire detection, localization and counting; Hydrology, coastal water mapping; Land use; Surveillance and law enforcement | High resolution optical imager | |
| WSAR | Operational | High resolution radar measurements of land and ocean features. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| X-Band SAR | Operational | High resolution images for monitoring of land surface and coastal processes and for agricultural, geological and hydrological applications. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| AEISS-HR | Being developed | High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring | High resolution optical imager | |
| AEISS-HR-A | Being developed | High resolution imager for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring | High resolution optical imager | |
| ALISS III | Being developed | For crops and vegetation dynamics, natural resources census, disaster management and large scale mapping of themes. | High resolution optical imager | |
| 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) | |
| LISS-V | Being developed | Vegetation monitoring, improved crop discrimination, crop yield, disaster monitoring and rapid assessment of natural resources. | High resolution optical imager | |
| Optical Instrument (CO3D) | Being developed | Will provide global Digital Surface Models of landmasses between +- 70° latitudes with a resolution of 1 m and in 3D. | High resolution optical imager | |
| PALSAR-3 | Being developed | Disaster monitoring, land monitoring, agricultural monitoring, natural resource exploration, global forest monitoring, potential use and interferometry. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| Poseidon-5 Altimeter | Being developed | | n/a | |
| SAR (KOMPSAT-6) | Being developed | High resolution radar for land applications of cartography and disaster monitoring | 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 | |
| High Resolution Optical Sensor (CAS500-2) | Approved | Cartography, land use and planning | High resolution optical imager | |
| L-band SAR (NISAR) | Approved | 3-year mission to study solid earth deformation (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides), changes in ice (glaciers, sea ice) and changes in vegetation biomass | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| OEK VR | Approved | Multispectral images of land surfaces and Oceans. | High resolution optical imager | |
| L-Band SAR | Proposed | Global observation of dynamic processes in the bio-, cryo-, geo- and hydrosphere. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |