Nature · Janggun Peak area · bounded crater-rim section
Baekdu / Changbai Mountain: terrain elevation and local relief
Baekdu / Changbai Mountain uses an approximately 2,738-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 935 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 2,738 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Janggun Peak area · bounded crater-rim section
- In feet, rounded
- 8,982.2 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 2737.8 m at 41.993333°, 128.077778°.
- Local base
- 1802.4 m at 41.970833°, 128.016667°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 128.016528°, east 128.149306°; south 41.962639°, north 42.025694°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 23.0 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The Smithsonian profile lists Changbaishan at 2,744 meters. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 2,738 meters in EGM2008 near Janggun Peak. The section center comes from the Janggun Peak seismic station reported in the 2016 Science Advances study, at 41.994° N, 128.083° E. That is a station near the summit, not a claimed summit survey monument. The dataset maximum lies about 439 meters west of that center. The base is the minimum of this selected crater-area window.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1802.4 meters at 41.970833° latitude, 128.016667° longitude. This produces about 935 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Baekdu / Changbai Mountain uses an approximately 2,738-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 935 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program: Changbaishan
- Ri Kyong-Song and colleagues, Science Advances 2016: Mt. Paektu seismic stations
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
- Copernicus source terrain tile 2 (GeoTIFF)
The 2,744-meter volcano reference is separate from the approximately 2,738-meter sample; the documented center locates a nearby seismic station.
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