Annamaria Castrignanò is a Research Director in CRA (Italian Council in Agricultural Research). She has been activelyinvolved in the discipline of pedometrics and digital soil mapping for many years. Her knowledge and expertise in geostatistics and statistics has been exemplified in several oral and poster presentations in International conferences and peer-refereed journal articles. At present she is the scientific leader of a project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, aimed at the application of Precision Agriculture to the cultivation of durum wheat in Southern Italy.