Nature · Puʻuʻulaʻula summit area · bounded volcanic surface
Haleakalā: terrain elevation and local relief
Haleakalā uses an approximately 3,053-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,794 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,053 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Puʻuʻulaʻula summit area · bounded volcanic surface
- In feet, rounded
- 10,016.9 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
- 3053.1 m at 20.709722°, -156.252778°.
- Local base
- 1258.7 m at 20.749722°, -156.302778°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -156.302917°, east -156.197361°; south 20.686528°, north 20.749861°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 28.9 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The U.S. National Park Service lists Haleakalā’s summit at 10,023 feet, approximately 3,055 meters. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 3,053 meters in EGM2008 in the Puʻuʻulaʻula summit area. Its maximum lies about 961 meters from the generalized identity coordinate, rather than at a presumed exact center point. The local-relief base is inside the summit section, not the island’s coastline or the floor of the broad summit depression.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1258.7 meters at 20.749722° latitude, -156.302778° longitude. This produces about 1,794 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
Haleakalā uses an approximately 3,053-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,794 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- U.S. National Park Service: Haleakalā geology guide
- 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)
The 10,023-foot NPS summit reference stays separate from the approximately 3,053-meter surface and the lower floor of Haleakalā’s summit depression.
Source review recorded . Maintained by Ishan Karunaratne. Suggest a correction with a source and the exact measurement being compared.