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Summarize Elevation

Summarize Elevation

The Summarize Elevation geoprocessing tool calculates elevation, slope, and aspect statistics for point, line, or polygon features you specify on a global elevation dataset.

Service Name: Elevation

Note:

The Summarize Elevation geoprocessing tool is not included with Collection 1.

Description

The Elevation geoprocessing service provides the Summarize Elevation geoprocessing tool. The Summarize Elevation tool is used to calculate elevation, slope, and aspect statistics for a given set of input point, line, or polygon features.

This tool can use features that you interactively draw or those from a feature layer.

Background

See Use the elevation analysis services for more information about how this service works; in particular, see the Summarize Elevation section.

See Publish the elevation analysis services for details about the configurations needed to enable this service.

Data

Various parts of the world are covered by different resolutions of data.

90-meter resolution

This tool currently works worldwide between 60 degrees north and 56 degrees south based on the 3-arcsecond (approximately 90-meter) resolution Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) dataset.

30-meter resolution

In North America (Canada, the United States, and Mexico), the tool uses 1-arcsecond (approximately 30-meter) resolution data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Elevation Dataset (NED). In Australia, the tool is available based on the 1-arcsecond (approximately 30-meter) resolution SRTM DEM-S dataset from Geoscience Australia. In the remaining parts of the world (Africa, South America, most of Europe and continental Asia, the East Indies, New Zealand, and islands of the western Pacific), the tool is available based on the 1-arcsecond (approximately 30-meter) resolution SRTM data between 60 degrees north and 56 degrees south.

10-meter resolution

In the continental United States, the tool is available based on the 1/3-arcsecond (approximately 10-meter) resolution USGS NED. In Norway, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Austria, Spain, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Slovak Republic, Italy, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, the tool is available based on approximately 10-meter resolution data from various authoritative sources.

Attribution

Sources: USGS, NASA, CGIAR, GEBCO, NLS, NMA, Geodatastyrelsen, GSA, GSI, and the GIS User Community