Nature · Colorado · main summit section · bounded southern view
Mount Elbert: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Elbert uses an approximately 4,396-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,538 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,396 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Colorado · main summit section · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 14,421.6 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
- 4395.7 m at 39.117778°, -106.445278°.
- Local base
- 2857.5 m at 39.086389°, -106.383611°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -106.509028°, east -106.381806°; south 39.086250°, north 39.149306°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 24.0 m east-west and 30.8 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 USGS named-summit table records Mount Elbert at 14,433 feet from its 1967 quadrangle, approximately 4,399.2 meters. National Geographic’s map catalog instead lists 14,440 feet. These published listings are kept identifiable rather than averaged. This Copernicus section independently reaches about 4,396 meters in EGM2008 and includes the broad neighboring ridge terrain.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2857.5 meters at 39.086389° latitude, -106.383611° longitude. This produces about 1,538 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 Elbert uses an approximately 4,396-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,538 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- USGS: named summits over 14,000 feet, dated quadrangle references
- National Geographic Maps: Colorado 14ers catalog elevations
- 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 4,396-meter scene value comes from the surface dataset. The dated USGS 14,433-foot listing and the map publisher’s 14,440-foot listing remain separate source references.
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