Altitude, Elevation and Height are terms that are often used interchangeably, but in survey and geospatial context, they can have slightly different meanings.
- 🛫Altitude: Vertical distance from mean sea level to the point being measured
- 🗻Elevation: Vertical distance from mean sea level to the point
in terrain surface
- 📏Height: Vertical distance from the point of observation on the Earth’s surface to the point being measured
Altitude, Elevation and Height
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