Aerosol column burden* | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Aerosol effective radius* | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Aerosol mass mixing ratio* | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Aerosol Optical Depth* | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Aerosol type* | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth) and NIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
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 optical depth | 4 - fair | Low-density cloud only.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
Cloud top height | 5 - marginal | Daylight only. | NIR channels to estimate the total-column O2 above the cloud top as measured around 760 nm |
Cloud type | 5 - marginal | Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
Colour Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | A few narrow-bandwidth VIS channels, suitable for a few water types, mainly in open ocean |
Downward short-wave irradiance at Earth surface | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Highly indirect. | VIS and NIR channels |
Earth surface albedo | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels |
Fire fractional cover | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Coarse spatial resolution.. Daylight only. | VIS channels |
Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR) | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels including Red at 700 nm |
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 |
Ocean chlorophyll concentration | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | A few narrow-bandwidth VIS channels, suitable for a few water types, mainly in open ocean |
Ocean Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient (DAC) | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | A few narrow-bandwidth VIS channels, suitable for a few water types, mainly in open ocean |
Ocean suspended sediments concentration | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | A few narrow-bandwidth VIS channels, suitable for a few water types, mainly in open ocean |
Oil spill cover | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS channels with narrow bandwidth |
Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels, range undersampled |
Short-wave cloud reflectance | 5 - marginal | No specific limitation. | VIS and NIR channels |
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 | 5 - marginal | Spectral interpolation needed.. Information on BRDF needed. | VIS and NIR channels |
Aerosol volcanic ash* | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels including 760 nm for high-level ashes |
Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column* | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels including 760 nm for high-level ashes |
Sea-ice cover | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR (for contour enhancement) channels |