3D animations of future glacier retreat using PGO data

A High-Level International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation was held from 29 to 31 May 2025 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference was organized by the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan in cooperation with the United Nations and other development partners, in support of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (2025).

The principal aims were to highlight the importance of glaciers and the urgency of stopping the accelerated melting, calving and retreating of glaciers on the Global Agenda, and to advance global efforts in addressing glacier melt and its wide-ranging impacts through collaborative action, scientific innovation, and policy alignment.

At the conference, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) presented several 3D animations of future glacier retreat from the present day to 2100. The animations were prepared on the basis of physical glacier modeling driven by scenarios of global climate change.

High-resolution digital surface models and orthoimages from the Pléiades Glacier Observatory (PGO) provided the essential dataset to visually represent terrain topography and surface texture in the animations, enabling a realistic depiction of iconic sites of glacier change in the 21st century.

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