# HALOWERK Eastern Land – Romania Surface Ruggedness (Elevation Std Dev)

> HALOWERK Eastern Land – Romania Surface Ruggedness (Elevation Std Dev) is a paid API for AI agents from ostland.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the standard deviation of sampled surface elevations (terrain ruggedness index) for a WGS84 coordinate validated against Romania's Natural Earth boundary.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://ostland.halowerk.com/v1/ro-ruggedness
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-eastern-land-romania-surface-ruggedness-elevation-std-dev-7fa593c5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7Hn_vZlxlVdGizJVm5Zuh

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability halowerk-eastern-land-romania-surface-ruggedness-elevation-std-dev-7fa593c5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the terrain ruggedness at latitude 45.75, longitude 24.5 in Romania — give me the elevation standard deviation for that point.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a precise, point-level terrain ruggedness metric (elevation standard deviation) specifically within Romania. It is ideal when you require boundary-validated results and are already working within the HALOWERK Eastern Land ecosystem alongside complementary metrics like slope, aspect, or soil data for the same region.

## Known failure modes

- Coordinate outside Romania's Natural Earth boundary — request rejected with no charge
- Latitude or longitude outside European coverage bounds (34–72.5°N, -31.5–40.5°E) — validation error
- Missing required latitude or longitude fields — schema validation error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol — request not processed

## How this service works

Standard deviation of sampled surface elevations. The coordinate is validated against the Natural Earth boundary for Romania; results outside it are rejected before payment.

## Output

A numeric value representing the standard deviation of sampled surface elevations at the given coordinate, indicating terrain ruggedness. Coordinates outside Romania's Natural Earth boundary are rejected before any charge is applied.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 72.5,
   "minimum": 34,
   "description": "WGS84 latitude inside the published European coverage."
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 40.5,
   "minimum": -31.5,
   "description": "WGS84 longitude inside the published European coverage."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-eastern-land-romania-surface-ruggedness-elevation-std-dev-7fa593c5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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