Nature · Tanzania · summit and crater-area section
Mount Meru: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Meru uses an approximately 4,533-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,319 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,533 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Tanzania · summit and crater-area section
- In feet, rounded
- 14,870.9 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
- 4532.7 m at -3.243333°, 36.749167°.
- Local base
- 2213.6 m at -3.275556°, 36.707778°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 36.700417°, east 36.799306°; south -3.275694°, north -3.212361°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.9 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
Tanzania National Parks’ geoparks page lists Mount Meru at 4,565 meters, while its 2020 brochure uses 4,566 meters and the Smithsonian profile lists 4,550 meters. These references disagree. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 4,533 meters in EGM2008, about 118 meters from the selected Smithsonian coordinate. The bounded crater and slopes do not describe a trail’s total ascent or a universal mountain base.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2213.6 meters at -3.275556° latitude, 36.707778° longitude. This produces about 2,319 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 Meru uses an approximately 4,533-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,319 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Tanzania National Parks: geoparks, Mount Meru
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program: Meru
- Tanzania National Parks: general brochure, 2020
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The 4,550, 4,565 and 4,566-meter source listings remain distinct from the approximately 4,533-meter sampled surface.
Source review recorded . Maintained by Ishan Karunaratne. Suggest a correction with a source and the exact measurement being compared.