Note: The 2014 data here donât reflect advanceable payments of the premium tax credit (APTC) for which an applicant may be eligible due to his/her householdâs income and how it relates to the federal poverty level (FPL). The plan data show premiums for the following rating scenarios: 1  Child -- one child any age.
1 Also called angle of elevation. the angle between the line from an observer or instrument to an object above the observer or instrument and a horizontal line.  the distance above a datum level.
For other uses, see Elevation (disambiguation) . Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth â approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. A sign at 8000 feet (2438 meters) in the San Bernardino Mountains.The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic system, vertical datum). topographical map is the main type of map used to depict elevation, often through use of contour lines. In a Geographic Information System (GIS), digital elevation models (DEM) are commonly used to represent the surface (topography) of a place, through a raster (grid) dataset of elevations.