Laurent P. auteur aut IRD Mouillot Florent auteur aut IRD Yue C. auteur aut IRD Ciais P. auteur aut IRD Moreno M. V. auteur aut IRD Nogueira J. M. P. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access 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. specialized 126 082 5 art. 180132 [12 p.] 2018 2052-4463 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073606 10.1038/sdata.2018.132 2052-4463 [F B010073606] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073606 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers18-08/010073606.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2018-09-03 2023-07-11 fdi:010073606 fre