Cow behaviour pattern recognition using a three-dimensional accelerometer and support vector machines

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 32-38

  Martiskainen, Paula ^a   Järvinen, Mikko ^a   Skön, Jukka Pekka ^a   Tiirikainen, Jarkko ^a   Kolehmainen, Mikko ^a   Mononen, Jaakko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; Behaviour monitoring; Cattle; Dairy cow; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; LEARNING; MODEL TEST; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 67349250906     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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