Aerosol column burden | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Aerosol effective radius | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR (including 760 nm for high-level aerosol), and SWIR channels |
Aerosol mass mixing ratio | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Aerosol Optical Depth | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Aerosol type | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels including 760 nm for high-level aerosol |
Biomass | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Index only.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels. Biomass inferred from NDVI and LAI |
Cloud cover* | 3 - high | No specific limitation. | VIS, NIR and TIR channels |
Cloud optical depth* | 3 - high | Low-density cloud only.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
Cloud top height* | 4 - fair | No specific limitation. | TIR window channels to estimate cloud top height from its temperature |
Cloud top temperature* | 4 - fair | No specific limitation. | TIR window channels |
Cloud type* | 2 - very high | No specific limitation. | VIS, NIR, SWIR and TIR channels |
Colour Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM)* | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | Many VIS channels, including narrow and very narrow ones. Suitable for more water types, mainly in open ocean |
Downward short-wave irradiance at Earth surface | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Highly indirect. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
Earth surface albedo | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels |
Fire fractional cover | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Coarse spatial resolution. | VIS and TIR channels |
Fire radiative power | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Coarse spatial resolution. | TIR channels |
Fire temperature | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Coarse spatial resolution. | TIR channels |
Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR) | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels including Red at 700 nm |
Land surface temperature | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive. | TIR split window channels around 11 micrometers for water vapour correction |
Leaf Area Index (LAI) | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive. | VIS and NIR channels |
Ocean chlorophyll concentration * | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | Many VIS channels, including narrow and very narrow ones. Suitable for more water types, mainly in open ocean |
Ocean Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient (DAC)* | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | Many VIS channels, including narrow and very narrow ones. Suitable for more water types, mainly in open ocean |
Ocean suspended sediments concentration* | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | Many VIS channels, including narrow and very narrow ones. Suitable for more water types, mainly in open ocean |
Oil spill cover* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS channels with narrow bandwidth |
Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive. | VIS channels, range accurately sampled |
Sea surface temperature | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive. | TIR split window channels around 11 micrometers for water vapour correction |
Short-wave cloud reflectance | 4 - fair | No specific limitation. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
Snow cover | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels, enabling screening snow from clouds |
Soil moisture at surface | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Index only. | VIS, NIR, SWIR and TIR channels. Soil moisture inferred from differential brightness and thermal inertia |
Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Low troposphere dominant. | TIR channels in the 11 micrometers split window |
Upward short-wave irradiance at TOA | 5 - marginal | Spectral interpolation needed.. Information on BRDF needed. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
Aerosol volcanic ash | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels including 760 nm for high-level ashes |
Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels including 760 nm for high-level ashes |
Wind (horizontal) | 5 - marginal | Limited to high latitudes.. Cloud or water vapour tracers needed. | TIR channel(s) around 11 micrometers window |
Sea-ice cover* | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive. | VIS, NIR (for contour enhancement), SWIR (for discrimination from clouds) and TIR channels |