Nature · Taishan · Jade Emperor Peak area
Mount Tai: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Tai uses an approximately 1,532-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,358 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 1,532 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Taishan · Jade Emperor Peak area
- In feet, rounded
- 5,026 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
- 1531.9 m at 36.256111°, 117.105556°.
- Local base
- 173.4 m at 36.225833°, 117.162778°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 117.040417°, east 117.162917°; south 36.225694°, north 36.288750°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 25.0 m east-west and 30.8 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
China’s national summit-height announcement, republished by Sichuan’s housing and construction department in 2009, gives Jade Emperor Peak as 1,532.7 meters. The 2003 Chinese submission hosted by UNESCO used an older 1,545-meter reference and provides the center coordinate used here. This Copernicus surface reaches approximately 1,532 meters in EGM2008. The close numerical agreement with one listing is not evidence that the dataset has surveyed the summit monument.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 173.4 meters at 36.225833° latitude, 117.162778° longitude. This produces about 1,358 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 Tai uses an approximately 1,532-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,358 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Chinese national summit-height announcement, Sichuan republication, 2009
- China’s 2003 Mount Taishan submission hosted by UNESCO
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The 1,532.7-meter national listing, older 1,545-meter submitted reference and approximately 1,532-meter raster value retain their own provenance.
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