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Mauna Loa: terrain elevation and local relief
Mauna Loa uses an approximately 4,168-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,109 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,168 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Hawaiʻi · summit plateau section
- In feet, rounded
- 13,675.3 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
- 4168.2 m at 19.475556°, -155.605833°.
- Local base
- 3058.9 m at 19.506667°, -155.660278°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -155.660417°, east -155.555694°; south 19.443472°, north 19.506806°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 29.2 m east-west and 30.7 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 Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program lists Mauna Loa at 4,170 meters. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 4,168 meters in EGM2008 near the selected summit area. Mauna Loa’s broad upper slopes look shallow when horizontal and vertical scales are equal. This limited summit window omits the coast and seafloor, so its local relief does not describe the volcano’s full base-to-summit rise.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 3058.9 meters at 19.506667° latitude, -155.660278° longitude. This produces about 1,109 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
Mauna Loa uses an approximately 4,168-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,109 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: Mauna Loa
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The approximately 4,168-meter surface and 4,170-meter volcano listing are independent; this is only a summit-area slice.
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