About Michael Brower
Expertise
Questions about the operation of the GPS constellation, functionality and expectations of GPS receivers, GPS applications, wireless-GPS applications, E-911, Vehicle Tracking, Vehicle Navigation, publishing GPS data, the functionality and methodology of differential GPS.
Experience
Have worked with location technology since the mid 70s, loran A, Loran C, Transit Satellite Navigation, Omega, GPS, Local Positioning Systems, DGPS. Assisted in the development of the NMEA Communications Standards (1983) and invented navigation data protocol conversion. Pioneered the OEM GPS industry in 1990 and the integration of GPS into Vehicle Navigation and Vehicle Tracking Applications. Assisted in the development of a National DGPS system via RDS subcarrier in the mid 90s and worked with the Globalstar Satellite Communications system. Currently publish Wireless Location News. http://www.wireless-location.com. Own and operate LocEight, a web portal that allows people to publish their location information. http://www.loceight.com.
Publications
Wireless Location News
Education/Credentials
High school, 2 years college, Airborne Communications and Navigation Systems USAF 1968, various computer science courses (1983 and useless btw), self educated hardware design and assembly level programming, self educated C programming (never made the leap to C++, morphed into marketing instead) self educated HTML, Perl, PHP, and JavaScript programming.
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