%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Laurent, P.
%A Mouillot, Florent
%A Yue, C.
%A Ciais, P.
%A Moreno, M. V.
%A Nogueira, J. M. P.
%T Data descriptor : FRY, a global database of fire patch functional traits derived from space-borne burned area products [Data paper]
%D 2018
%L fdi:010073606
%G ENG
%J Scientific Data
%@ 2052-4463
%M ISI:000438033700002
%P art. 180132 [12 ]
%R 10.1038/sdata.2018.132
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073606
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers18-08/010073606.pdf
%V 5
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Vegetation fires are intrinsic ecosystem disturbances of the Earth system. Global burned area products have been delivered from several space-borne instruments, and have recently provided pixel-level information underpinning fire spread processes. Here we present FRY, a global database of fire patches with morphology-based functional traits reconstructed from pixel-based burned areas derived from the MODIS and MERIS imagery using a flood-fill algorithm. Each fire patch is characterized by the geo-location of its center, area, perimeter, the features of the ellipse fitted over its pixel's spatial distribution, and different indices of patch complexity. We obtained a consistent spatial distribution of global fire patch functional traits between the MCD64A1 Collection 6 and the MERIS fire_cci v4.1 datasets during their overlap period (2005-2011), confirming the robustness of the applied algorithm and the consistency between both products. This database is relevant to a broad spectrum of fire-related applications such as local to global functional pyrodiversity, fire emissions quantification, and the benchmarking of fire modules embedded in dynamic global vegetation models.
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