Terrain visibility analysis
Mount Baker from Vancouver
A 111 km cross-border view from Vancouver towards the 3,286 m volcano beyond the Fraser lowland and North Cascade foothills.
This page explains a reproducible Sightelo case. The result is recalculated on demand with the available elevation data; it is not a guaranteed real-world observation.
Open and recalculate this analysisPoints and assumptions
- Observation point
- Vancouver, Canada
- Point of interest
- Mount Baker, United States
- Geodesic distance
- 110.8 km
- Initial bearing
- 120.0° (east-southeast)
- Refraction
- Standard (k = 0.13)
What this example helps you study
This direction combines a relatively open lowland with mountain barriers close to both cities and the volcano. Small changes in the observation point can move the sight line behind Vancouver's North Shore terrain or open it across the Fraser valley.
Limits of interpretation
The calculation models terrain, Earth curvature and standard atmospheric refraction. It does not model buildings, trees, clouds, haze or local atmospheric variations.