| Aerosol column burden* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels |
| Aerosol effective radius | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels |
| Aerosol mass mixing ratio* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels |
| Aerosol Optical Depth* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels |
| Aerosol type* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels |
| Biomass | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Index only.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels. Biomass inferred from NDVI |
| Cloud cover | 5 - marginal | Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Cloud drop effective radius | 4 - fair | At cloud top.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels and different viewing angles (for differentiation). |
| Cloud ice effective radius | 4 - fair | At cloud top.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels with different viewing angles (for differentiation). |
| Cloud optical depth | 4 - fair | Low-density cloud only.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels with different viewing angles |
| Cloud type | 5 - marginal | Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels viewing under more angles |
| Downward short-wave irradiance at Earth surface | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Highly indirect. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Earth surface albedo | 1 - primary | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels with many viewing angles to account for anisotropic reflectivity |
| Fire fractional cover | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Coarse spatial resolution.. Daylight only. | VIS channels |
| Leaf Area Index (LAI) | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels. LAI inferred from NDVI |
| Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) | 1 - primary | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels, range undersampled; a few different viewing angles for irradiance reconstruction |
| Short-wave cloud reflectance | 2 - very high | No specific limitation. | VIS and NIR channels with multi-viewing and multi-polarisation capabiliy to account for anisotropical reflectance |
| Snow cover | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Soil moisture at surface | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Index only.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels. Soil moisture inferred from differential brightness |
| Upward short-wave irradiance at TOA | 4 - fair | Spectral interpolation needed. | VIS and NIR channels with multi-viewing and multi-polarisation capability to account for anisotropical reflectance |
| Aerosol volcanic ash | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Sea-ice cover | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR (for contour enhancement) channels |
Instrument: MADPI