Nature · New Zealand · sharp summit with substantial grid softening
Mount Aspiring / Tititea: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Aspiring / Tititea uses an approximately 2,894-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,542 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 2,894 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- New Zealand · sharp summit with substantial grid softening
- In feet, rounded
- 9,496.3 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
- 2894.5 m at -44.384167°, 168.726389°.
- Local base
- 352.9 m at -44.352778°, 168.666111°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 168.658750°, east 168.796806°; south -44.415417°, north -44.352361°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 22.1 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
New Zealand’s Department of Conservation uses 3,033 meters for Mount Aspiring / Tititea in its 2006–07 alpine-climber survey report. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 2,894 meters in EGM2008 near the summit coordinate. The sharp summit is substantially softened by the coarse source grid; the image is not stretched to the report’s elevation. The cited document surveys visitor use, not a new geodetic measurement of the summit.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 352.9 meters at -44.352778° latitude, 168.666111° longitude. This produces about 2,542 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
Mount Aspiring / Tititea uses an approximately 2,894-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,542 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Department of Conservation: Mount Aspiring alpine-climber survey 2006–07
- 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 dated DOC reference of 3,033 meters and approximately 2,894-meter sampled summit remain distinct. The large numerical gap is an explicit modeling limitation.
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