Nature · Wyoming · main summit section · bounded southern view
Grand Teton: terrain elevation and local relief
Grand Teton uses an approximately 4,059-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,022 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,059 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Wyoming · main summit section · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 13,317.1 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
- 4059.1 m at 43.740833°, -110.803056°.
- Local base
- 2036.6 m at 43.710000°, -110.735000°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -110.870694°, east -110.734028°; south 43.709861°, north 43.772917°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 22.4 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved
A little more perspective
The National Park Service lists Grand Teton at 13,770 feet, approximately 4,197.1 meters. This section reaches only about 4,059 meters in EGM2008: the sharp summit is poorly resolved by the coarse surface data. The neutral terrain view therefore illustrates the bounded range geometry, with a substantial summit-resolution limitation visible in the measurement notes.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2036.6 meters at 43.710000° latitude, -110.735000° longitude. This produces about 2,022 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
Grand Teton uses an approximately 4,059-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,022 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- National Park Service: Grand Teton summit reference
- 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)
A roughly 4,059-meter raster maximum does not revise the published 13,770-foot mountain elevation. It shows why a global surface grid cannot serve as a precise survey of a narrow summit.
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