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Mount Damavand: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Damavand uses an approximately 5,599-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,944 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 5,599 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Iran · summit-crater section · differing published references
- In feet, rounded
- 18,368.6 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
- 5598.7 m at 35.954444°, 52.110556°.
- Local base
- 2654.5 m at 35.925556°, 52.170000°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 52.048194°, east 52.170139°; south 35.923750°, north 35.986806°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 25.1 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Hatam Chavari and colleagues’ EGU 2009 research abstract gives Damavand’s maximum elevation as 5,610 meters while describing a gravity, GPS and leveling profile to the summit. The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program lists a different 5,670-meter reference. This Copernicus section reaches about 5,599 meters in EGM2008. The published disagreement remains visible; neither value is used to stretch the raster or claim an unverified conversion between reference systems.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2654.5 meters at 35.925556° latitude, 52.170000° longitude. This produces about 2,944 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 Damavand uses an approximately 5,599-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,944 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Hatam Chavari et al., EGU2009-11230: gravity and height measurements on Damavand
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program: differing Damavand elevation 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)
The approximately 5,599-meter surface estimate stays independent of both the research abstract’s 5,610 meters and the Smithsonian’s 5,670 meters.
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