Envisat sees smoke from Portuguese wildfires


Smoke
 
This MERIS Reduced Resolution image was acquired 21 August 2005 and shows smoke from wildfires raging across Portugal blown into the Atlantic

9 August view
 
This MERIS Reduced Resolution image acquired 5 August 2005 shows smoke from fires across the country - to date more than 140 000 hecatres of land has been destroyed. Fanned by strong winds, the fires follow a long period of drought.



Release date: 22 February 2008