← All authors David B. Lobell Stanford University (from arXiv:2209.14611, 2022) · ORCID · OpenAlex
44 papers in scope · 43 published · 1 on the econ.EM arXiv · 6,618 citations · h-index 28 (over the papers listed here)
Papers (1 of 44)
Scalable Vision-Guided Crop Yield Estimation
published 2026 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · first circulated 2025
Dynamic, high-resolution poverty measurement in data-scarce environments
published 2025 · Journal of Development Economics
with Zhuo Zheng, Tiange Wu, Richard M. Lee, David Newhouse, Talip Kilic, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon
Large increases in public R&D investment are needed to avoid declines of US agricultural productivity
published 2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 10 citations · first circulated 2024
with Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Robert G. Chambers, Yurou He
Agricultural Productivity and Climate Mitigation
published 2024 · Annual Review of Resource Economics · 9 citations
with Keith O. Fuglie, Thomas W. Hertel, Nelson B. Villoria
Relaxing Credit and Information Constraints: Five-Year Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Agriculture
published 2024 · Economic Development and Cultural Change · 3 citations · first circulated 2022
with Abdulrazzak Tamim, Aurélie P. Harou, Marshall Burke, Malgosia Madajewicz, Christopher Magomba, Hope Michelson, Cheryl Palm, Jiani Xue, Margaret Madajewicz
HarvestNet: A Dataset for Detecting Smallholder Farming Activity Using Harvest Piles and Remote Sensing
published 2024 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 5 citations · first circulated 2023
with Jonathan Xu, Amna Elmustafa, Liya Weldegebriel, Emnet Negash, Richard Lee, Chenlin Meng, Stefano Ermon
Soil micronutrients linked to human health in India
published 2023 · Scientific Reports · 30 citations
with Claire M. Morton, Hemant Pullabhotla, Leah Bevis
Optimal index insurance and basis risk decomposition: an application to Kenya
published 2023 · American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 13 citations · first circulated 2021
Understanding economic development in rural Africa using satellite imagery, building footprints and deep models
published 2022 · Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems · 6 citations
with Amna Elmustafa, Erik Rozi, Yutong He, Gengchen Mai, Stefano Ermon, Marshall Burke
working paper 2022 · arXiv
IS-Count: Large-Scale Object Counting from Satellite Images with Covariate-Based Importance Sampling
published 2022 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 18 citations · first circulated 2021
with Chenlin Meng, Enci Liu, Willie Neiswanger, Jiaming Song, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon
Twice Is Nice: The Benefits of Two Ground Measures for Evaluating the Accuracy of Satellite-Based Sustainability Estimates
published 2021 · Remote Sensing · 13 citations
with Stefania Di Tommaso, Marshall Burke, Talip Kilic
Efficient Poverty Mapping from High Resolution Remote Sensing Images
published 2021 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 44 citations
with Kumar Ayush, Burak Uzkent, Kumar Tanmay, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon
Predicting Livelihood Indicators from Community-Generated Street-Level Imagery
published 2021 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 19 citations · first circulated 2020
with Jihyeon Lee, Dylan Grosz, Burak Uzkent, Sicheng Zeng, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon, Jihyeon Janel Lee
Using satellite imagery to understand and promote sustainable development
published 2021 · Science · 429 citations · first circulated 2020
with Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, Stefano Ermon
Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa
published 2020 · Nature Communications · 415 citations
with Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, Stefano Ermon, Marshall Burke
Eyes in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Assessing Satellite‐ and Ground‐Based Approaches to Crop Yield Measurement and Analysis
published 2019 · American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 191 citations · first circulated 2018
with George Azzari, Marshall Burke, Sydney Gourlay, Zhenong Jin, Talip Kilic, Siobhan Murray, Burke Marshall
A new spin on an old debate: Errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for inverse scale - Productivity relationship in Uganda
published 2019 · Journal of Development Economics · 117 citations
with Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic
Tile2Vec: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Spatially Distributed Data
published 2019 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 174 citations
with Neal Jean, Sherrie Wang, Anshul Samar, George Azzari, Stefano Ermon
The global overlap of bioenergy and carbon sequestration potential
published 2018 · Climatic Change · 49 citations
with Peter Turner, Katharine J. Mach, Sally M. Benson, Ejeong Baik, Daniel L. Sanchez, Christopher B. Field
Deep Gaussian Process for Crop Yield Prediction Based on Remote Sensing Data
published 2017 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 547 citations
Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty
published 2016 · Science · 1662 citations
with Neal Jean, Marshall Burke, Sang Michael Xie, W. Matthew Davis, Stefano Ermon
Transfer Learning from Deep Features for Remote Sensing and Poverty Mapping
published 2016 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 433 citations · first circulated 2015
with Sang Michael Xie, Neal Jean, Marshall Burke, Stefano Ermon, Michael Xie
Growing sensitivity of maize to water scarcity under climate change
published 2016 · Scientific Reports · 144 citations
with Qingfeng Meng, Xinping Chen, Zhenling Cui, Yi Zhang, Haishun Yang, Fusuo Zhang
Colocation opportunities for large solar infrastructures and agriculture in drylands
published 2016 · Applied Energy · 196 citations
with Sujith Ravi, Jordan Macknick, Christopher B. Field, Karthik Ganesan, Rishabh Jain, Michael Elchinger, B. Stoltenberg
Estimated impacts of emission reductions on wheat and maize crops
published 2015 · Climatic Change · 67 citations
with Claudia Tebaldi
The effects of extremely wet planting conditions on maize and soybean yields
published 2015 · Climatic Change · 88 citations
with D. Urban, Michael J. Roberts, Wolfram Schlenker
Impacts of precipitation and temperature on crop yields in the Pampas
published 2015 · Climatic Change · 89 citations
with Santiago R. Verón, Diego de Abelleyra
Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts
published 2014 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 232 citations · first circulated 2011
with Marshall Burke, J. A. Dykema, Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath
Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions
published 2014 · Energy Economics · 150 citations · first circulated 2012
with Thomas W. Hertel
The benefits of recent warming for maize production in high latitude China
published 2013 · Climatic Change · 76 citations
with Qingfeng Meng, Peng Hou, Hongfei Wang, Zhenling Cui, Fusuo Zhang, Xinping Chen
The challenge to detect and attribute effects of climate change on human and natural systems
published 2013 · Climatic Change · 123 citations
with Dáithí A. Stone, Maximilian Auffhammer, Mark Carey, Gerrit Hansen, Christian Huggel, Wolfgang Crämer, Ulf Molau, Andrew R. Solow, Lourdes Tibig, Gary Yohe
Climate adaptation as mitigation: the case of agricultural investments
published 2013 · Environmental Research Letters · 134 citations
with Uris Lantz C. Baldos, Thomas W. Hertel
Modeling agricultural commodity prices and volatility in response to anticipated climate change
published 2012 · AGUFM
with Ngoc-Khanh Tran, Jarrod R. Welch, Michael Roberts, Wolfram Schlenker
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Projected temperature changes indicate significant increase in interannual variability of U.S. maize yields
published 2012 · Climatic Change · 160 citations
with D. Urban, Michael J. Roberts, Wolfram Schlenker
California perennial crops in a changing climate
published 2011 · Climatic Change · 95 citations
with Christopher B. Field
Climate extremes in California agriculture
published 2011 · Climatic Change · 43 citations
with Angela Torney, Christopher B. Field
Bio-physical vs. Economic Uncertainty in the Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on World Agriculture
published 2010 · AGUFM
with Thomas W. Hertel
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The Effect of Irrigation on Regional Temperatures: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Trends in California, 1943-2002
published 2008 · Journal of Climate
with C. Bonfils
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Regional Differences in the Influence of Irrigation on Climate
published 2008 · Journal of Climate · 215 citations
with Govindasamy Bala, A. Mirin, Thomas J. Phillips, R. M. Maxwell, D. Rotman
The Effect of Irrigation on Regional Temperatures: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Trends in California, 1934–2002
published 2008 · Journal of Climate · 192 citations
with C. Bonfils
Identification of external influences on temperatures in California
published 2007 · Climatic Change · 73 citations
with C. Bonfils, Philip B. Duffy, Benjamin D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, Thomas J. Phillips, Charles Doutriaux
Comments on “Methodology and Results of Calculating Central California Surface Temperature Trends: Evidence of Human-Induced Climate Change?”
published 2007 · Journal of Climate · 9 citations
with C. Bonfils, Philip B. Duffy
Historical effects of temperature and precipitation on California crop yields
published 2007 · Climatic Change · 345 citations
with Kimberly A. Nicholas, Christopher B. Field
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