

- Teaches on 6 courses
- Course convener for 7 courses
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
- Human bias and CNNs’ superior insights in satellite based poverty mappingHamid Sarmadi, Ibrahim Wahab, Ola Hall, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Mattias Ohlsson
 (2024) Scientific Reports, 14
 Journal article
- A decade of maize yield gap studies in sub-Saharan Africa: how are farm-level factors considered?Ola Hall, Ibrahim Wahab, Sigrun Dahlin, Per Hillbur, Magnus Jirström, et al.
 (2024) International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 22
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- How AI ‘sees’ the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify povertyOla Hall, Hamid Sarmadi, Thorsteinn Rognvaldsson
 (2023) The Conversation
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- A review of machine learning and satellite imagery for poverty prediction: Implications for development research and applicationsOla Hall, Francis Dompae, Ibrahim Wahab, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku
 (2023) Journal of International Development, 35 p.1753-1768
 Journal article review
- Models for Non-Modelers : Understanding the Use of Models for Social Scientists and OthersGöran Djurfeldt, Ola Hall
 (2023)
 Book
- Towards Explaining Satellite Based Poverty Predictions with Convolutional Neural NetworksHamid Sarmadi, Thorsteinn Rognvaldsson, Nils Roger Carlsson, Mattias Ohlsson, Ibrahim Wahab, et al.
 (2023) 2023 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, DSAA 2023 - Proceedings
 Conference paper
- "The maize is the cost of the farming, and cassava is our profit": Smallholders' perceptions and attitudes to poor crop patches in the Eastern region of GhanaIbrahim Wahab, Ola Hall, Magnus Jirström
 (2022) Agriculture & Food Security, 11
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- The geography of connectivity : a review of mobile positioning data for economic geographyAndreas Erlström, Ola Hall, Markus Grillitsch
 (2022) Journal of Geographical Systems, 24 p.679-707
 Journal article review
- A review of explainable AI in the satellite data, deep machine learning, and human poverty domainOla Hall, Mattias Ohlsson, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson
 (2022) Patterns, 3
 Journal article review
- The use of drones in the spatial social sciencesOla Hall, Ibrahim Wahab
 (2021) Drones, 5
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- A pixel level evaluation of five multitemporal global gridded population datasets : a case study in Sweden, 1990–2015Maria Francisca Archila Bustos, Ola Hall, Thomas Niedomysl, Ulf Ernstson
 (2020) Population and Environment, 42 p.255-277
 Journal article review
- Sustainable agricultural intensification in four Tanzanian villages—a view from the ground and the skyAgnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Ola Hall, Aida Isinika, Elibariki Msuya, Genesis Tambang Yengoh
 (2020) Sustainability (Switzerland), 12
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- An integrated approach to unravelling smallholder yield levels : The case of small family farms, eastern region, GhanaIbrahim Wahab, Magnus Jirström, Ola Hall
 (2020) Agriculture, 10
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- Population centroids of the world administrative units from nighttime lights 1992-2013Ola Hall, Maria Francisca Archila Bustos, Niklas Boke-Olén, Thomas Niedomysl
 (2019) Scientific Data, 6
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- Micro-Spatial Analysis of Maize Yield Gap Variability and Production FactorsSussy Munialo, Ola Hall, Niklas Boke-Olén, Cecilia Onyango M., Willis Oluoch-Kosura, et al.
 (2019) Agriculture, 9
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- How Data-Poor Countries Remain Data Poor: Underestimation of Human Settlements in Burkina Faso as Observed from Nighttime Light DataOla Hall, Maria Francisca Archila Bustos, Magnus Andersson
 (2019) ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8
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- Classification of Maize in Complex Smallholder Farming Systems Using UAV ImageryOla Hall, Sigrun Dahlin, Håkan Marstorp, Maria Archila, Ingrid Öborn, et al.
 (2018) Drones, 2 p.1-8
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- Using panel survey and remote sensing data to explain yield gaps for maize in sub-Saharan AfricaGöran Djurfeldt, Ola Hall, Magnus Jirström, Maria Archila, Björn Holmquist, et al.
 (2018) Journal of Land Use Science, 13 p.344-357
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- Remote sensing of yields : Application of UAV imagery-derived ndvi for estimating maize vigor and yields in complex farming systems in Sub-Saharan AfricaIbrahim Wahab, Ola Hall, Magnus Jirström
 (2018) Drones, 2
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- Agrarian Change and Structural Transformation: Drivers and Distributional OutcomesAgnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Göran Djurfeldt, Ola Hall, Maria Francisca, Archila Bustos
 (2018) Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa: Longitudinal Perspectives from Six Countries , p.113-113
 Book chapter
- Using Satellite Data on Nighttime Lights Intensity to Estimate Contemporary Human Migration DistancesThomas Niedomysl, Ola Hall, Maria Archila, Ulf Ernstson
 (2017) Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107 p.591-605
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- Data Descriptor : High-resolution African population projections from radiative forcing and socio-economic models, 2000 to 2100Niklas Boke-Olén, Hakim Abdi, Ola Hall, Veiko Lehsten
 (2017) Scientific Data, 4
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- The challenge of comparing crop imagery over space and timeOla Hall, Maria Archila
 (2016) ICT Update , p.14-15
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- Monitoring Economic Development from Space: Using Nighttime Light and Land Cover Data to Measure Economic GrowthSouknilanh Keola, Magnus Andersson, Ola Hall
 (2015) World Development, 66 p.322-334
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- Assessing Recovery from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: An Application of Night-time Light Data and Vegetation IndexMagnus Andersson, Ola Hall, Maria Archila
 (2015) Geographical Research, 53 p.436-450
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- Nighttime lights and population changes in Europe 1992–2012Maria Archila, Ola Hall, Magnus Andersson
 (2015) Ambio: a Journal of the Human Environment, 44 p.653-665
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- Does Large-Scale Gold Mining Reduce Agricultural Growth? : Case studies from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and TanzaniaMagnus Andersson, Ola Hall, Niklas Boke-Olén, Anja Tolonen
 (2015) Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015 : Linking Land Tenure and Use for Shared Prosperity , p.1-27
 Conference paper
- Mining, Economic Activity and Remote Sensing : Case studies from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and TanzaniaMagnus Andersson, Ola Hall, Niklas Boke-Olén
 (2015) CSAE Conference 2015: Economic Development in Africa , p.1-42
 Conference paper
- Geographic and Temporal Scales of Monitoring Development from SpaceMagnus Andersson, Souknilanh Keola, Ola Hall
 (2014)
 Conference paper: abstract
- Causes and Consequences of Stakeholder Participation in Natural Resource Management: Evidence from 143 Biosphere Reserves in Fifty-Five Countries.Ola Hall, Andreas Duit
 (2014) State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance
 Book chapter
- M-databas – en forsknings- och geodatabas vid Malmö Högskola och Lunds Universitet.Nicklas Guldåker, Ola Hall, Mona Tykesson
 (2013)
 Other
- Mapping the Politics of Ecology: Environmental Politics and Policy in a Comparative PerspectiveOla Hall, Andreas Duit
 (2013)
 Book
- From Census to Grids: Comparing the Gridded Population of the World with Swedish Census RecordsOla Hall, Emilie Stroh, Fredy Paya
 (2012) The Open Geography Journal, 5 p.1-5
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- The emergence and spread of tick-borne encephalitis virus in scandinaviaOla Hall, Helena Eriksson, Peter Nolskog, Tomas Bergström
 (2010) [Host publication title missing]
 Conference paper
- Remote Sensing in Social Science ResearchOla Hall
 (2010) The Open Remote Sensing Journal, 3 p.1-16
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- Saving the woodpeckers: Social Capital, Governance, and Policy performanceOla Hall, Andreas Duit, Gregorz Mikusinski, Per Angelstam
 (2009) The Journal of Environment & Development, 18 p.42-61
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- World poverty, environmental vulnerability and population at risk for natural hazardsOla Hall, Andreas Duit, Leandro NC Caballero
 (2008) Journal of Maps, 4 p.151-160
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- Characterization and quantification of data voids in the shuttle radar topography mission dataOla Hall, Giacomo Falorni, Rafael L Bras
 (2005) Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE, 2 p.177-181
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- Detecting dominant landscape objects through multiple scales: an integration of object-specific methods and watershed segmentationOla Hall, Geoffrey J Hay, André Bouchard, Danielle J Marceau
 (2004) Landscape Ecology, 19 p.59-76
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- Multiscale object-specific analysis: Scale problems and multiscale solutionsOla Hall, Geoffrey J Hay, Danielle J Marceau
 (2004) Geoinformatics 2004 : - Proc. 12th International Conference on Geoinformatices, University of Gävle, Sweden , p.7-9
 Conference paper
- A multiscale object-specific approach to digital change detectionOla Hall, Geoffrey J Hay
 (2003) International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 4 p.311-327
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- Introduktion till Kartografi och geografisk informationOla Hall, Göran Alm, Stefan Ene, Ulf Jansson
 (2003)
 Book
- A method for landscape regionalization based on fuzzy membership signaturesOla Hall, Wolter Arnberg
 (2002) Landscape and Urban Planning, 59 p.227-240
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