Guest editorial – soil erosion assessment, tools and data: A special issue from the Global Symposium on soil Erosion 2019

This special issue on soil erosion assessment, tools and data creation, consolidation and harmonization presents advances in soil erosion research with a focus on new tools that are being used to assess soil erosion rates. This publication includes eleven selected contributions presented at the Global Symposium on Soil Erosion (GSER, 15–17 May 2019, Rome, Italy) dealing with erosion indicators’ improvement, the use of remote sensing, nuclear techniques and geochemical fingerprinting as promising methods to assess soil losses, management practices that reduce soil erosion in vineyards and olive groves plantations and their modelling, and national and regional erosion assessments.