| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| ABI | Operational +/-2 degrees Kelvin | Detects clouds, cloud properties, water vapour, land and sea surface temperatures, dust, aerosols, volcanic ash, fires, total ozone, snow and ice cover, vegetation index. | n/a |  |
| CIRC | Operational | Active fire detection. Land surface temperature. | 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 | |
| SAFIRE | Operational | Real-time global wildfire detection, continuous surface temperature monitoring | n/a | |
| 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 | |
| ABI-5 | Being developed +/-2 degrees Kelvin | Detects clouds, cloud properties, water vapour, land and sea surface temperatures, dust, aerosols, volcanic ash, fires, total ozone, snow and ice cover, vegetation index. | n/a | |
| SACFF | Being developed | High resolution imaging of forest fire | n/a | |
| WildFireSat Sensor | Being developed | Measurements are: Fire Radiative Power (FRP) for hotspot locations. Data products generated: 1) Fire maps showing location, extent, and timing of forest fire events; 2) Fire characteristics, such as fire line intensity and rate of spread; 3) Information enabling air quality modeling of wildland fire events; 4) Mass of carbon released into atmosphere due to biomass burning. | 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 | |