Annamaria CastrignanoAnnamaria Castrignanó is a research director at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics in Bari (Italy). She has been actively involved in the discipline of pedometrics and digital soil mapping for many years. Her knowledge and expertise n geostatistics and statistics has been exemplified in several oral presentations in International conferences and peer-refereed journal articles (she has published more than 250 papers). She has been the scientific leader of national and international projects aimed at the application of precision farming to the cultivation of durum wheat and tomato in Southern Italy and at the use of proximal and remote sensing in agriculture. She has been giving several basic and advanced courses on geostatistics to national and international PhD students and researchers in Italy and abroad. She is currently involved in the implementation of multivariate geostatistical techniques of data fusion with proximal and remote sensors. Read More Read Less