Nature · California · main summit with surrounding volcanic terrain
Mount Shasta: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Shasta uses an approximately 4,305-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,267 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,305 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- California · main summit with surrounding volcanic terrain
- In feet, rounded
- 14,122.7 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
- 4304.6 m at 41.409722°, -122.195000°.
- Local base
- 2037.8 m at 41.377778°, -122.144167°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -122.260694°, east -122.129028°; south 41.377639°, north 41.440694°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 23.2 m east-west and 30.9 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 14,162 feet for Mount Shasta from the 1986 Shasta quadrangle, approximately 4,316.6 meters. That dated mapped reference is distinct from this approximately 4,305-meter Copernicus surface. The mountain’s western subsidiary cone remains part of the surrounding terrain in the southern view; it is not assigned the main summit’s elevation.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 2037.8 meters at 41.377778° latitude, -122.144167° longitude. This produces about 2,267 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 Shasta uses an approximately 4,305-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,267 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
- 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 scene preserves the sampled main-summit section. The 14,162-foot USGS map listing is retained with its 1986 source date, without asserting that all later surveys use the same value.
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