| Name | Description | Nr of Bands |
| AATSR | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 7 |
| ACE-FTS | Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment - Fourier Transform Spectrometer | |
| AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder | 7 |
| ALI | Advanced Land Imager | 9 |
| ALISSA | L'atmosphere par Lidar Sur Saliout | 1 |
| ALMAZ-1 | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
| AlSat | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
| ALT | Dual Frequency Radar Altimeter | 2 |
| ALT (Seasat) | Altimeter | 1 |
| AMI | Active Microwave | 1 |
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer | 8 |
| AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS | 6 |
| AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding | 15 |
| AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding | 5 |
| ASAR | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer | 14 |
| ATSR-1 | Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 4 |
| ATSR-2 | Along Track Scanning Radiometer | 7 |
| AVHRR/2 | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | 5 |
| AVHRR/3 | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | 6 |
| AVNIR | Advanced visible near-infrared Radiometer | 5 |
| AVNIR-2 | Adv. visible and near-infrared radiometer (type 2) | 4 |
| AWiFS | Advanced Wide Field Sensor A and B | 4 |
| BEIJING-1-MS | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
| BILSAT-MS | | 4 |
| BILSAT-PAN | | 1 |
| CCD | | 5 |
| CERES | Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System | 3 |
| Chinese Mapping Telescope | | 1 |
| CHRIS | Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer | 18 |
| COBAN | | 9 |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner | 6 |
| DK-1 camera | | 1 |
| DK-2 camera | | 1 |
| DORIS | Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite | 2 |
| EOC | Electro-Optical Camera | 1 |
| EP TOMS | Earth Probe-Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer | 6 |
| ERB | Earth Radiation Budget | 13 |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment | 4 |
| EROS A | | 1 |
| ETM | Enhanced Thematic Mapper | 8 |
| GERB | Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget | 2 |
| GLAS | Geoscience Laser Altimeter System | 2 |
| GLI | Global Imager | 36 |
| GOME | Global Monitoring of Atmospheric Ozone | 6 |
| GOMOS | Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars | 3 |
| HCS | High Sensitivity Camera | 1 |
| HEPD | High Energy Particle Detector | 7 |
| HIRDLS | High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder | 21 |
| HIRS/2 | High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 |
| HIRS/3 | High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 |
| HIRS/4 | High Resolution Infra Red Radiation Sounder | 20 |
| HRC | High Resolution Camera | 1 |
| HRG | High Resolution Geometric | 4 |
| HRS | High Resolution Stereoscopic | 1 |
| HRTC | High Resolution Technological Camera | 1 |
| HRV | High Resolution Visible | 4 |
| HRVIR | High Resolution Visible and Infra-red | 4 |
| HSB | Humidity Sounder for Brazil | 4 |
| HSRS | Hot Spot Recognition Sensor System | 2 |
| Hyperion | | 220 |
| IKAR-DELTA | | 3 |
| IKAR-N | | 5 |
| IKAR-P | | 2 |
| ILAS | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer | 2 |
| ILAS-II | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II | 4 |
| Imager | | 5 |
| Imager-M | | 5 |
| IMG | Interferometer Monitor for Greenhouse Gases | 1 |
| IMS | Ionosphere Measurement Sensor | 1 |
| IPEI | Ionosphere Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument | 4 |
| IR-MSS | Infrared Multispectral scanner | 4 |
| ISTOK-1 | Infrared Spectrometer | 64 |
| JAMI | Japanese Advanced meteorological Imager | 5 |
| JMR | Jason-1 Microwave Radiometer | 3 |
| KVR-1000 | | 1 |
| LAC | LEISA Atmospheric Corrector, corrects high spatial resolution multispectral data for atmospheric effects on surface reflectance | 256 |
| LIMS | Limb infrared monitor of the Atmosphere | 6 |
| LIS | Lightning Imaging sensor | 1 |
| LISS 1 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
| LISS 2 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
| LISS 3 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
| LISS 3* | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 4 |
| LISS 4 | Linear Imagine Self Scanning System | 3 |
| MAESTRO | Measurements of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation | |
| MERIS | Medium Resolution Imaging Specrometer Instrument | 15 |
| MESSR | Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer | 4 |
| MHS | Microwave Humidity Sounder | 5 |
| MIPAS | Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding | 5 |
| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | 4 |
| MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder | 5 |
| MMRS | MultiSpectral Medium Resolution Scanner | 5 |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (PFM on Terra, FM1 on Aqua) | 36 |
| MOMS-2P | Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner | 4 |
| MOPITT | Measurement Of Pollution In The Troposphere | 64 |
| MOS | Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 18 |
| MOS-A | Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 4 |
| MOS-B | Modular Optoelectronic Scanning Spectrometer | 13 |
| MSMR | Multifrequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer | 4 |
| MSR | Microwave Scanning Radiometer | 2 |
| MSS | Multispectral Scanner | 4 |
| MSS (LS 1-3) | Multispectral Scanner Landsat 1,2,3 | 5 |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit | 4 |
| MSU-E | Microwave Sounding Unit | 3 |
| MSU-E1 | | 3 |
| MSU-E2 | | 3 |
| MSU-SK | | 5 |
| MSU-SK (Resurs) | | 5 |
| MSU-SK1 | | 5 |
| MTI | Multi-spectral Thermal Imager | 16 |
| MVISR | Multichannel Visible and IR Scan Radiometer | 10 |
| MWR | Microwave Radiometer | 2 |
| NigeriaSat-1 | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
| NSCAT | NASA Scatterometer | 1 |
| OCI | Ocean Color Imager | 7 |
| OCM | Ocean Color Monitor | 8 |
| OCTS | Ocean Color and Temperature scanner | 12 |
| OLS | Operational Linescan System | 3 |
| OMI | Ozone Monitoring Instrument | 3 |
| OPS | Optical Sensor | 8 |
| Orbview-3 | | 5 |
| OSA | Optical Sensor Assembly | 5 |
| OSIRIS | Optical Spectograph and Infrared Imaging System | |
| OSMI | Ocean Scanning Multi-spectral Imager | 6 |
| OTD | Optical Transient Detector | 1 |
| OZON-M | | 4 |
| PALSAR | L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
| PAN | | 1 |
| PAN-A | Panchromatic-Aft pointing | 1 |
| PAN-F | Panchromatic-Forward pointing | 1 |
| POAM-II | Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement | 9 |
| POAM-III | Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement | 9 |
| POLDER | Polarization and directionality of the Earth's reflectance | 15 |
| Poseidon 2 altimeter | | 2 |
| PR | Preciptation Radar | 2 |
| PRISM | Three panchromatic sensors for Stereomapping | 1 |
| Quickbird | | 4 |
| R-400 | | 1 |
| RA | Radio Altimeter | 2 |
| RA-2 | Radio Altimeter | 3 |
| Radar Altimeter | | 1 |
| RBV | Return Beam Vidicon Camera | 4 |
| RIS | Reflector in space | 1 |
| ROCSAT-2 | | 5 |
| S-VISSR | S-Visible and IR Spin Scan Radiometer | 4 |
| SAM II | Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement | 1 |
| SAMS | Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder | 9 |
| SAR (JERS-1) | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
| SAR (RadarSat-1) | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
| SAR (Seasat) | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
| SASS | Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer | 1 |
| SBUV/2 | Solar Backscatter Ultra violet instrument | 12 |
| SBUV/TOMS | Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet/Total Ozone Mapping-failed in 1993 | 6 |
| SCIAMACHY | Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography | 8 |
| SeaWiFS | Sea viewing Wide Field Sensor | 8 |
| Seawinds | | 1 |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager | 12 |
| SIM | Spectral Irradiance Monitor | 1 |
| SIR-C | | 1 |
| SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer | 5 |
| SOLSTICE A & B | SOlar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment | 1 |
| Sounder | | 19 |
| SSMIS | Special Sensor Micowave Imager/Sounder | 4 |
| SSU | Stratospheric Sounder Unit | 3 |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer | 12 |
| THIR | Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer | 2 |
| TIM | Total Irradiance Monitor | 1 |
| TK-350 | | 1 |
| TM | Thematic Mapper | 7 |
| TMI | TRMM Microwave Imager | 5 |
| TMR | TOPEX Microwave Radiometer | 3 |
| TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (see also SBUV/TOMS) | 6 |
| TopSat | | 1 |
| Travers SAR | | 2 |
| TV Camera | | 1 |
| UK-DMC | Standard DMC sensor | 3 |
| VEGETATION | VEGETATION 2 on Spot 5 | 4 |
| VHRR | Very High Resolution Radiometer | 2 |
| VIRR | Visible and IR Radiometer | 2 |
| VIRS | Visible and Infra red scanner | 5 |
| VISSR | Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer | 3 |
| VISSR (GMS) | Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer | 4 |
| VTIR | Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer | 4 |
| WAOSS-B | Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner | 2 |
| Water Vapor Radiometer | | 2 |
| WFI | Wide field imager | 2 |
| WiFS | Wide Field Sensor | 3 |
| WindSat | | 5 |
| X-SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 1 |
| XPS | XUV Photometer | 1 |
