Data descriptor : FRY, a global database of fire patch functional traits derived from space-borne burned area products [Data paper] Laurent, P. /Mouillot, Florent Yue, C. Ciais, P. Moreno, M. V. Nogueira, J. M. P. 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. 2018 text https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073606 fdi:010073606 Laurent P., Mouillot Florent, Yue C., Ciais P., Moreno M. V., Nogueira J. M. P.. Data descriptor : FRY, a global database of fire patch functional traits derived from space-borne burned area products [Data paper]. 2018, 5, art. 180132 [12 p.] EN