Selected Publications.
The complete list of publications can be found on my Google Scholar.

2026
A Novel Approach to Estimate Total Carbon Accounting for Below and Above-Ground Carbon Content of Industrial Hemp with UAV LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data Fusion
A. Pawar, V. Sagan, H. Alifu, K. Tamang, G. Bagnall, C. Gul, N. Shrestha, F. A. Lopes
Smart Agricultural Technology.

2025
Geospatial Time Machine: A Generative Model to Enhance Spectral-Temporal Data Resolution
F. A. Lopes, V. Sagan, S. Sarkar, A. Stylianou, F. Esposito
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Self-Supervised Learning for Soybean Disease Detection Using UAV Hyperspectral Imagery
M. Rahaman, V. Sagan, F. A. Lopes, H. Alifu
Remote Sensing.

SoilSR: A Soil-Oriented Super-Resolution Method to Enhance Satellite-Based SOC Analysis
F. A. Lopes, V. Sagan, A. Pawar, H. Alifu
Optical Sensors.

2024
Bridging the Gap Between Crop Breeding and GeoAI: Soybean Yield Prediction from Multispectral UAV Images with Transfer Learning
J. Skobalski, V. Sagan, H. Alifu, O. Al Akkad, F. A. Lopes
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

PlantPlotGAN: A Physics-Informed Generative Adversarial Network for Plant Disease Prediction
F. A. Lopes, V. Sagan, F. Esposito
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

2016
A Software Engineering Perspective on SDN Programmability
F. A. Lopes, M. Santos, R. Fidalgo, S. Fernandes
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

High-Level Modeling and Application Validation for SDN
F. A. Lopes, L. Lima Jr., M. Santos, R. Fidalgo, S. Fernandes
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS).

2015
Model-Driven Networking: A Novel Approach for SDN Applications Development
F. A. Lopes, M. Santos, R. Fidalgo, S. Fernandes
IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management.

2014
How Software Aging Affects SDN: A View on the Controllers
F. A. Lopes, M. Santos, M. Santana, S. Fernandes
Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS).