Fires on Canary Islands force thousands to flee


Tenerife, Canary Islands
 
This image of fires burning on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands was acquired by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 31 July 2007 working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres.

Gran Canaria
 
This image of fires burning on Gran Canaria in Spain’s Canary Islands was acquired by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 28 July 2007 working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres.



Release date: 28 February 2012