Eugene Levin, CP

Eugene Levin, CP

Contact

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
  • PhD, Photogrammetry, State Land Organization University, Moscow, Russia
  • MS, Astro-Geodesy, Academy of Engineers in Geodesy, Aerospace, Survey, and Mapping, Novosibirsk, Russia

Biography

Eugene Levin is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering at Michigan Tech. His areas of expertise are photogrammetry—the design, development, customization, integration, and delivery of off-the-shelf commercial and research software products; cognitive GIS; and human-computer symbiosis in integrated geospatial environments. Levin advised the Michigan Tech’s Aerospace Enterprise Engineering Team on developing Photogrammetric UAV.

Levin’s professional activities include serving as the regional director for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Chapter of ASPRS and sitting on the editorial board for the journal GPS Solutions, published by Springer-Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany. He is also active in several professional organizations, including the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing’s International Commission Working Group IV/VIII, which focuses on the updating and maintenance of core spatial databases.

Levin’s research activities have included a study on railroad exploitation in permafrost areas in Russia—Mosgiprotrans, Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Moscow—for the Federal Transportation Institute. He has given an invited lecture at the Moscow State Land Planning University and an invited research seminar, ISPRS 3S Graduate Student Summer Seminar SSGA, also in Russia.

Research Interests

  • Integrated geospatial technologies for sustainable development
  • Mobile mapping platforms for geographical and environmental studies
  • SAR- and LIDAR-based remote sensing and GIS
  • Geosensorics, real-time networks of geosensors
  • Human-computer symbiosis for knowledge extraction and expertise transfer
  • Visual perception in remote sensing and GIS
  • 3-D geospatial visualization and augmented reality
  • Visual and automated feature extraction in multispectral and hyperspectral image interpretation
  • Geospatial-sensor modeling and calibration
  • Image processing and automated feature extraction from aerial and satellite imagery
  • Automated systems for vision-based autonomous navigation and control of manned/unmanned robotic platforms
  • Image fusion and analysis
  • Photogrammetry of aerial and high-resolution satellite imagery

Teaching Interests

  • Earth observation systems
  • Geodesy
  • Photogrammetry
  • Geospatial technologies, data, and systems
  • Global positioning systems
  • Remote sensing
  • LIDAR-, SAR-/InSAR-based remote sensing
  • Geospatial 3-D visualization
  • Geospatial imaging: perception and interpretation
  • Introductory and advanced GIS
  • Spatial analysis and modeling
  • Spatial decision support
  • Cartography and cybercartography