The International Land Direct Readout Coordination Committee (ILDRCC) exists as an organized mechanism to coordinate information about international direct readout activities related to land surface assessment and monitoring. The ILDRCC also acts as a voice of the international land direct readout community that interfaces with space agencies and science teams responsible for direct broadcast capability, data quality, and official science product development. The ILDRCC was envisioned as a participatory way to share information between a growing community of scientific and operational direct readout practitioners, and as a more effective means to provide recommendations and feedback directly to the GOFC-GOLD executive committee, NASA/IPO earth observation programs (EOS, NPP, NPOESS, etc.) and other international earth observation programs, and earth observation program direct readout implementation entities such as NASA DRL.

The ILDRCC also functions as a key component in meeting the objectives of the GOFC-GOLD global land cover monitoring framework. In this context, ILDRCC provides a forum to facilitate improvement, consistency and accessibility in the use of moderate resolution earth observation data and technologies for monitoring forests, other vegetation cover types, and other terrestrial resources.

Specific ILDRCC objectives include:

• Establish and maintain an information clearinghouse that includes a current inventory of land direct readout programs and ground stations, with links to associated data and products.
• Provide recommendations on priority land science products and applications for the direct readout environment.
• Provide recommendations on future system and sensor capabilities for land applications.
• Provide feedback to NASA DRL on availability and access to land and relevant atmosphere algorithms/code.
• Provide feedback on calibration issues and ways to coordinate regional and mission calibration efforts.
• Work with the science community on establishing standard validation protocols and help to coordinate global and regional validation efforts.
• Coordinate with the atmosphere and ocean disciplines concerning DR algorithms/products and future sensor capabilities.
• Serve as an interface between DR community requirements and existing and future land monitoring programs of NASA/NOAA/IPO and other participating space agencies.

ILDRCC welcomes the participation of members from the direct readout community that provide and/or utilize direct readout data acquired by moderate resolution sensors, particularly EOS MODIS and VIIRS, for land remote sensing applications. Please email ILDRCC, or contact the designated regional contact for your geographic area, for additional information.