The primary goal of EnMAP is to measure and analyze quantitative diagnostic parameters describing key processes on the Earth’s surface. Derived geochemical, biochemical and biophysical parameters are assimilated in physically based ecosystem models, and ultimately provide information reflecting the status and evolution of various terrestrial ecosystems.

Based on these quantitative measurements remote sensing standard products can be substantially improved and new user-driven information products will be established that could so far only be produced in the frame of scientific airborne hyperspectral campaigns.