Nature · Kengamine summit area · bounded southern view
Mount Fuji: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Fuji uses an approximately 3,768-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,632 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 3,768 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Kengamine summit area · bounded southern view
- In feet, rounded
- 12,363.5 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
- 3768.4 m at 35.360556°, 138.727222°.
- Local base
- 1136.0 m at 35.329167°, 138.666944°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 138.666806°, east 138.787917°; south 35.329028°, north 35.392083°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 25.2 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
Japan’s Geospatial Information Authority retains 3,776 meters for Fuji’s highest point. Its 2024 announcement separately gives 3,775.56 meters for the surveyed second-order triangulation point, which is lower than the highest point. Neither number is a terrain-height multiplier: this Copernicus section has a sampled maximum of about 3,768 meters in EGM2008.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1136.0 meters at 35.329167° latitude, 138.666944° longitude. This produces about 2,632 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 Fuji uses an approximately 3,768-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,632 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- GSI: new satellite-based elevation of the Mount Fuji triangulation point
- 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)
Keep Fuji’s rounded 3,776-meter highest point separate from its triangulation point and this sampled terrain maximum.
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