The International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) was founded in 1964 and is affili-ated to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). IAEG is a worldwide scientific society with more than 4800 members and 69 national and regional groups. There are also 19 active professional commissions in different fields. IAEG publishes an official academic journal by Springer-Verlag "the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment" . The aims of IAEG are: to promote and encourage the advancement of Engineering Geology through technological activities and research, to improve teaching and training in Engineering Geology, and to collect, evaluate and disseminate the results of engineering geo-logical activities on a worldwide basis.

Founded in 1879, our Group soon became a worldwide reference in the design and development of advanced solu-tions, with offices in over 70 countries and 30 factories worldwide. Our mission is to pursue excellence through continuous improvement, while delivering to customers engineered solutions that are innovative, advanced, and environmentally friendly. We are committed to outstanding safety, quality, and sustainability, to create value for all stakeholders as well as our communities.

Founded in 2018, Jingchuang Intelligent Technology Co. , Ltd.(referred to as "Jingchuang Intelligence") is a leading service provider of geo-hazard prevention and Spatial Ge-ographic Information Technology in China. The company focuses on the fusion technology of Lidar and remote sens-ing images, and specializes in the deep application of geological hazards, LIDAR, UAV, photogrammetry and other technologies in the field of geological hazards prevention and control.

Sichuan Xingchen Surveying Instrument Co, Ltd. was established in 2005. ltis a specialized service company engaged in the sales and development of geographic information spatial data collection equipment, construction surveying equipment, and geographic information software. Our main products include total stations, high-precision GNSS receivers, GIS data collectors, 3D laser scanners, unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing hardware and software products, as well as displacement monitoring systems, digital construction and BlM detection systems, and Iocation services for data application solutions.

Shenzhen Feima Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., a Chinese high-tech company, has been jointly founded by senior executives and specialists from IT and UAV domains, with a considerable industrial technology accumulation and marketing experience, as well as IT product design and industrial manufacturing experience. The company has R&D centers in Shenzhen, Beijing and Tianjin, with a R&D team of more than 200 people. Feima Robotics has more than 240 patents and honors like National High-tech Enterprise and National Little Giant Firm.

PowerChina Huadong Engineering Co., Ltd. (HDEC), one of the earliest investigation & design institutes in China. The scope of business includes hydropower and new energy, urban and rural construction, ecology and environment and other fields. HDEC strive to build a first-class international engineering company with intelligent service ability in the whole process of the project. The headquarter of HDEC is located in Hangzhou, and have six regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Eurasia, Southeast Africa, Central and Western Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East and North Africa, covering over 70 countries and regions.

Ruhr IoT is a national high-tech enterprise founded in 2013 by a team of PhDs who studied in Germany, which has been selected into the Hangzhou Quasi-Unicorn Enterprise list for four consecutive years, selected into the 2023 China Future Unicorn Enterprise list, selected into the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology specialized and special new key "Little Giant" enterprise, and awarded the first equip-ment enterprise (set) in Zhejiang Province. The company is committed to becoming the world's leading intelligent hardware-driven security monitoring scenario solution pro-vider.

For over 180 years Springer Nature has been advancing discovery by providing the best possible service to the whole research community. We help researchers uncover new ideas, support librarians and institutions with innovations in technology and data, and provide quality publishing sup-port to societies. We make sure all the research we publish is significant, robust and stands up to objective scrutiny, that it reaches all relevant audiences in the best possible format, and can be discovered, accessed, used, re-used and shared.

Established in 1999, Hi-Target is a pioneering high-precision surveying and mapping instrument brand that has achieved a successful listing in China. Hi-Target is committed to investing heavily in research and develop-ment and specializes in providing a comprehensive range of integrated commercial solutions for various industries. Our offerings include surveying and engineering solutions, Mo-bile GIS, Hydrographic Survey Solutions, Monitoring Solu-tions, Machine Control Solutions, Precision Agriculture So-lutions, and Correction Services.

Sichuan Institute of Geological Engineering Investigation Group Co.Ltd.(CKJT), formerly known as the Sichuan Pro-vincial Mining Bureau Chengdu Hydrogeology and Engi-neering Geology Team established in 1956, is a first-class high-tech enterprise with diversified development in eco-logical environment engineering, geotechnical engineering, disaster prevention and mitigation engineering, information engineering and construction engineering based on geo-logical engineering. It currently holds more than 30 types of qualification certificates issued by competent departments of housing construction, natural resources, emergency management, environmental protection, water resources, transportation, science and technology, etc., including 24 type A or first-level qualifications.

The company was established in December 1995 in Chengdu with a registered capital of 500 million yuan. Currently, it has 26 departments including the Water Engineering and Environmental Exploration and Design Institute and the Science and Technology Innovation Center, with over 700 employees. The company focuses on the entire industrial chain of geological disaster prevention and control, with multiple businesses in the geological and engineering fields running parallel, achieving full coverage of comprehensive industry businesses.

The State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (SKLGP), Chengdu University of Technology, located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, South-west China, is a world-class institute and China’s only NATIONAL level laboratory focusing on geohazard prevention, engineering geology and geotechnology. SKLGP has very advanced instruments and equipment with a total value of about 2 billion RMB, which could fully support all kinds of geohazard and geotechnical research, including on site and laboratory tests, monitoring, geotechnical param-eter tests, physical and numerical modelling system, GIS and RS analysis system etc.

iGeoTek Company was founded in Chengdu City, China in 2018. The company was rated as a national high-tech enterprise in 2020. iGeotek develops ultra-low power and smart wireless sensors and geohazard monitoring systems, including wireless crack meters, intelligent remote terminate units (iRTU), Beidou/GNSS displacement monitoring device, rainfall gauges, debris-flow ultrasonic detectors, high precision inclinometer and geo-acoustic sensors. iGeotek provides the best wireless sensors in the industry in terms of smartness, size, weight, battery efficiency, battery life, features and maintenance-free in harsh environments. iGeotek also provides smart solutions for wireless acquisition strategy. The developed sensors are integrated with an intelli-gent self-adaptive frequency acquisition algorithm through embedded software programming to improve the efficiency of monitoring and early warning for sudden and random geological disasters. iGeotek sensors have played a key role in the successful warning of many large landslides in China.

The 2nd Geological Brigade of Sichuan, affiliated to Sichuan Geological Bureau, is a second-level public institution under Sichuan provincial administration. It’s mainly responsible for basic, public welfare, strategic and other geological technical services and support work. With 20 enterprises represented by Sichuan Geological Engineering Group Co., Ltd., it owns 7 scientific research platforms such as Sichuan Geological Resources, Environment and Engineering Inno-vation Center, 9 core technical teams, 1 national laboratory, and 13 Grade A qualifications such as geological disaster and surveying; it is a comprehensive geological prospecting team with professional advantages in geological prospect-ing, hydraulic environmental geology, ecological remedia-tion, geological disaster prevention, surveying and mapping, engineering construction, ecological restoration, inspection and testing.

Chengdu University was established in 1978 and holds a key university status in Sichuan Province and Chengdu City. It served as the host institution for the 31st World University Summer Games (Universiade). The university has the au-thority to deliver bachelor's and master's degrees, operates a post-doctoral practice base, and is designated as a high-level university in the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program." It is also rec-ognized as a university with a unique focus on national defense education and is part of Sichuan Province's doctoral education program under the "Priority Cultivation" cate-gory.

Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, is a state non-profit academic institution, major in the following subjects: Formation and mitigation of mountain hazards Degradation and reconstruction of mountain environment Evaluation, planning and sustainable development of ecoenvironment, Remote-sensing, mapping, GIS, and Agroecology.

Established in 2010, GDEM Technology, Beijing, Co., Ltd. is a 3A Credit-rated high-tech enterprise specializing in the research & development and sales of high-performance parallel CAE numerical simulation software in the field of engineering computation. With over 60 registered software copyrights, the company is committed to delivering comprehensive solutions for high-performance computing.

Deep Underground Science and Engineering (DUSE), as a new international and fully open access journal, aims to build a mainstream academic exchange platform focusing on forefront research, and to become a world-class scientific and technological journal. DUSE is currently indexed in prominent databases: Scopus, DOAJ, CNKI et al. The DUSE publishes the papers on important theoretical break-throughs, valuable reviews of state-of-the-art, or discussions on the latest innovative, prospective, and leading achievements in the field of Deep Underground Science and Engineering. Papers on core fundamental research, revolutionary technology development, major engineering construction, special environmental effects, and other important related studies are also solicited.

Shanxi Metallurgical Geotechnical Engineering Exploration Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise, which is a state-owned enterprise subordinate to the No.3 Bureau of China Metallurgical Geology Bureau (China Metallurgical Bureau Group Co., Ltd.), and was founded in 1990, head-quartered at No.107, Longcheng Street, Taiyuan City.

The company has the qualification of Class I Specialized Contractor for Foundation Engineering, Class A Comprehensive Engineering Exploration, Class A Geological Hazard Prevention and Control Unit for Danger Assessment, Prospection, Design and Construction, Class A Geological Drilling (Pit) Exploration, Class II General Contractor for Construction, Municipal Public Works, Water Conservancy and Hydroelectricity Engineering, and Class II Specialized Contractor for Environmental Protection Engineering, etc.

JES is a bimonthly geological journal which reports essential and original academic research results in all fields of earth sciences. It has been indexed by SCI since 2007. It was started in cooperation with Springer in 2009.

The team takes the Multi-scale Seismic of Detection and Monitoring as their object for more than ten years, and developed a systematic structure including seismic triggering mechanism, acquisition/processing technologies and software by combining the research of Theory and Technology, Micro-scale and Macro-scale, Simulation and Observation, Experiment and Engineering. Their technologies and products have been widely applied in scientific study in laboratory, quality evaluation of petroleum exploitation and development, and early warning of risk both for surface and underground engineering.

The Sedimentary Geology Research Institute is currently the only institution specializing in cultivating high-level talents and scientific research in sedimentary geology in terms of colleges and universities in China. It is one of the first batch of master's and doctoral degree authorization programs for this discipline in China. At present, it has two doctoral degree authorization programs for first-level disciplines, namely geology, geological resources and geological engineering, two postdoctoral research stations, and 2 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, namely sedimentology (incl.: paleogeography), and paleontology and stratigraphy, and is one of the main supporting units for the construction of the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering, Double First-class Discipline (Geological Resources and Geological Engineering), State Key Discipline of "Geological Resources and Geological Engineering", State Key Discipline of "Mineralogy, Petrology and Mineral Deposit Science" (Cultivation Discipline), National Characteristic Major of "Resource Exploration Engineering" and National First-class Major of "Geology".

Sichuan Province Huadi Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. was established in December 1995 with the approval of the former Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources. It has a registered capital of 500 million yuan and is headquartered in Chengdu. It is currently a key subsidiary of the Sichuan Geological Survey Research Institute, with 26 departments including the Hydrogeological and Environmental Survey and Design Institute and the Science and Technology Innovation Center, employing over 700 staff members.

The College of Environment and Civil Engineering was established in 1956. It has six departments, one State Key Laboratory, one national experimental teaching demon-stration center, and one national virtual simulation exper-iment teaching center, etc. The college currently has 192 staff members. In the past two decades, the college has won two first prizes for the National Science and Technology Progress Award, one National Science and Technology Cooperation Award, dozens of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievement awards.

Introduction: The College of Ecology and Environment at CDUT was established in 2017, with a national first-class undergraduate major (i.e., Environmental Engineering) and a first-class discipline construction point in Sichuan Province (i.e., Environmental Science and Ecology). According to the ESI (Essential Science Indicators) database in March of 2022, CDUT entered the top 1% of the world in ESI rankings in the field of environment/ecology research.

National key laboratory of oil and gas reservoir geology and exploitation, jointly built by Southwest Petroleum University and Chengdu University of Technology, was approved by the state for project establishment in 1989.The laboratory relies on the construction of the first batch and second round of "Double First Class" disciplines "Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering" and "Geological Resources and Geological Engineering" in China. The four disciplines supported by the laboratory, namely "Engineering", "Chemistry", "Materials Science", and "Earth Science", have entered the top 1% of ESI globally. The laboratory has always shouldered the mission of national oil and gas strategic scientific and technological strength, closely focusing on the national oil and gas development and security strategic goals of "stabilizing the east and accelerating the west", conducting applied basic research, breaking through the basic cutting-edge technologies that lead development and key core technologies with first-mover advantages, which has made irreplaceable contributions to the sustained and stable development of China's oil and gas industry.