| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| IASI | Operational | Measures tropospheric moisture and temperature, column integrated contents of ozone, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other minor gases which affect tropospheric chemistry. Also measures sea surface and land temperature. | n/a |  |
| IASI-NG | Operational | Measures profiles of atmospheric temperature, humidity, ozone, carbon monoxide, columns of methane, nitrous oxide, and other minor gases, and sea, ice, and land surface temperature and emissivity. Provides information on aeorols and cloud: fractional coverage, phase, cloud top height (input to Polar AMVs) and particle size. Prime applications: NWP, AC/AQ, climate. Secondary applications: NWC, land/ocean surface monitoring. IASI-NG will resume IASI role as internationl standard for satellite inter-calibration (GSICS). | n/a | |
| IRS | Operational | Measurements of vertically resolved clear sky atmospheric motion vectors, temperature and water vapour profiles. | n/a | |
| MSI (Sentinel-2) | Operational | Optical high spatial resolution imagery over land and coastal areas for Copernicus operational services. | n/a | |
| FEI | Being developed | Provide images in a narrow spectral band centered at 10.5µm. | n/a | |
| HYPCAM | Being developed | HYPCAM is a push-broom hyperspectral imaging instrument covering wavelengths from 400 to 2,500 nm with approximately 10 nm spectral sampling. With a target ground sampling distance of 30 m and a swath of about 19 km, it supports agriculture and forestry monitoring, mineral mapping, greenhouse-gas assessment, and environmental monitoring. | 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 | |
| SWIRSAT Imager | Being developed | High spatial resolution multispectral imagery in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) region for global monitoring of GHG concentrations, specifically CO2 and CH4. | n/a | |
| 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). | n/a | |
| AMSI | Proposed | Optical high spatial resolution imagery over land and coastal areas for Copernicus operational services. | n/a | |