| Aerosol column burden* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | UV (for absorbing aerosol), VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels |
| Aerosol effective radius | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | UV (for absorbing aerosol), VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels |
| Aerosol mass mixing ratio | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | UV (for absorbing aerosol),VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels |
| Aerosol Optical Depth* | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | UV (for absorbing aerosol), VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels |
| Aerosol type | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | UV (for absorbing aerosol), VIS (with narrow bandwidth), NIR and SWIR channels |
| Biomass | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Index only.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels. Biomass inferred from NDVI and LAI |
| Cloud cover* | 5 - marginal | Daylight only. | VIS and NIR channels |
| Cloud optical depth* | 3 - high | Low-density cloud only.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
| 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 | 3 - high | Cloud sensitive.. Highly indirect. | VIS, NIR and SWIR 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)* | 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 | 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 | 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 | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Index only.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR and SWIR channels. Soil moisture inferred from differential brightness |
| Upward short-wave irradiance at TOA | 4 - fair | Spectral interpolation needed.. Information on BRDF needed. | UV, VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
| Aerosol volcanic ash | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | UV, VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
| Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column | 5 - marginal | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | UV (specifically sensitive to ash), VIS, NIR and SWIR channels |
| Sea-ice cover | 4 - fair | Cloud sensitive.. Daylight only. | VIS, NIR (for contour enhancement) and SWIR (for discrimination from clouds) channels |
Instrument: TANSO-CAI/2