Nature · Punta Penia · separate from Punta Rocca
Marmolada: terrain elevation and local relief
Marmolada uses an approximately 3,308-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,911 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,308 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Punta Penia · separate from Punta Rocca
- In feet, rounded
- 10,852 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
- 3307.7 m at 46.435000°, 11.850278°.
- Local base
- 1396.6 m at 46.425556°, 11.916944°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 11.777917°, east 11.920972°; south 46.402917°, north 46.465972°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 21.3 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
Visit Dolomites identifies Punta Penia at 3,343 meters as Marmolada’s highest summit. This section centers Punta Penia, where the Copernicus surface reaches approximately 3,308 meters in EGM2008. Nearby Punta Rocca is a distinct summit and does not define this measurement. The illustration retains the dataset’s sampled slopes and ice geometry; it is not a present-day glacier inventory or a measurement to a refuge roof.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1396.6 meters at 46.425556° latitude, 11.916944° longitude. This produces about 1,911 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
Marmolada uses an approximately 3,308-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,911 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Visit Dolomites: Punta Penia summit distinction in the Serauta 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)
Punta Penia is the selected Marmolada summit. Its 3,343-meter published reference stays separate from the approximately 3,308-meter model maximum.
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