| Biomass | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Index only.. Infrequent coverage.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels. Biomass inferred from NDVI |
| Cloud cover | 5 - marginal | Infrequent coverage.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Cloud optical depth | 4 - fair | Low-density cloud only.. Infrequent coverage.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Earth surface albedo | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage. | VIS channels |
| Fire fractional cover | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS channels with high resolution for boundary detection |
| Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR) | 3 - high | High troposphere only.. Cloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage. | VIS channels including Red at 700 nm |
| Fraction of vegetated land | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Glacier cover | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Long time for mapping.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels; and panchromatic channel with high resolution, for glacier boundary detection |
| Glacier topography | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Long time for mapping.. Daylight only. | VIS and panchromatic channels with cross-track steering capability for stereoscopy between images from neighbour orbits |
| Ice sheet topography | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Long time for mapping.. Daylight only. | VIS and panchromatic channels with cross-track steering capability for stereoscopy between images from neighbouring orbits |
| Land cover* | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Land surface topography | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Long time for mapping.. Daylight only. | VIS and panchromatic channels with cross-track steering capability for stereoscopy between images from neighbour orbits |
| Leaf Area Index (LAI) | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only.. Infrequent coverage. | VIS and NIR channels. LAI inferred from NDVI |
| Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage. | VIS channels, range accurately sampled |
| Sea-ice cover | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR (for contour enhancement) channels |
| Short-wave cloud reflectance | 5 - marginal | Infrequent coverage. | VIS and NIR channels. Unsuitable dynamic range (saturation) |
| Snow cover | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and panchromatic (higher resolution) channels |
| Soil moisture at surface | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Index only.. Infrequent coverage.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels. Soil moisture inferred from differential brightness |
| Soil type | 2 - very high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Upward short-wave irradiance at TOA | 5 - marginal | Spectral interpolation needed.. Information on BRDF needed.. Infrequent coverage. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Vegetation type | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Aerosol volcanic ash | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Infrequent coverage.. Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
Instrument: Spaceview-NG