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Doi Inthanon: terrain elevation and local relief
Doi Inthanon uses an approximately 2,580-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,647 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 2,580 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Thailand · wooded summit-area surface section
- In feet, rounded
- 8,463.6 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
- 2579.7 m at 18.584167°, 98.482500°.
- Local base
- 932.8 m at 18.622778°, 98.434722°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 98.434583°, east 98.538750°; south 18.560694°, north 18.624028°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 29.3 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The Tourism Authority of Thailand’s November 2021 park announcement gives Doi Inthanon as 2,565 meters. This wooded Copernicus section reaches about 2,580 meters in EGM2008, numerically above that published mountain reference. A surface model can include canopy or structures, and the source systems differ; the higher sample is not evidence that the mountain’s surveyed elevation should be raised.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 932.8 meters at 18.622778° latitude, 98.434722° longitude. This produces about 1,647 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
Doi Inthanon uses an approximately 2,580-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,647 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Tourism Authority of Thailand: Doi Inthanon National Park, November 2021
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
Approximately 2,580 meters describes the highest sampled surface in this section. It is not a replacement for the tourism authority’s 2,565-meter summit reference or a measurement to a treetop chosen in the field.
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