The ESA Fire Disturbance Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project (FireCCI) has produced maps of global burned area derived from satellite observations. The Medium Resolution Burned Area dataset version 6.0 (MRBA60) is the rebranding (with some minor corrections) of the Sentinel-3 SYN FireCCI v1.1 (FireCCIS311) dataset. Its pixel product is distributed as 6 continental tiles and is based on surface reflectance data from the SLSTR instrument (reprojected to the OLCI grid in the Synergy (SYN) product) onboard the Sentinel-3 A&B satellites. This information is complemented by VIIRS thermal information. This dataset contains the same information as FireCCIS311 except for the period of July and August 2022, when some omission errors due to the lack of VIIRS information were solved in the MRBA60 dataset.

MRBA60 is available at CEDA for the years 2019 to 2024, and its production continues as part of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S, https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-fire-burned-area).

The MRBA60 Pixel product described here includes maps at 0.002777-degree (approx. 300m) resolution. Burned area (BA) information includes 3 individual files, packed in a compressed tar.gz file: date of BA detection (labelled JD), confidence level (CL, a probability value estimating the confidence that a pixel is actually burned), the land cover (LC) information as defined in the C3S Land Cover v2.1.1 product. An unpacked version of the data is also available.