Robust classification of animal tracking data

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-59

  Schwager, Mac ^a   Anderson, Dean M ^b   Butler, Zack ^c   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive sampling; Animal tracking; Cluster analysis; GPS; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION;

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; ANIMAL TRACKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

ALGORITHM; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GPS; LIVESTOCK FARMING; SAMPLING; SENSOR; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33846920846     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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