Using accelerometer, high sample rate GPS and magnetometer data to develop a cattle movement and behaviour model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2068-2075

  Guo, Y ^a   Poulton, G ^a   Corke, P ^a   Bishop Hurley, G J ^a   Wark, T ^a   Swain, D L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Behaviour modelling; Hidden Markov models; Precision ranching; Sensor networks; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR POSITIONS; ANGULAR SPEED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR; ANIMAL MOVEMENT; ANIMAL SPECIES; BEHAVIOUR MODELLING; BEHAVIOUR MODELS; DATA SETS; LONG-TERM PREDICTION; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODELLING METHODOLOGY; PRECISION RANCHING; SAMPLE RATE; STATE TRANSITIONS; WIRELESS;

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; EDUCATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SENSOR NETWORKS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ACCELEROMETER; ALGORITHM; BEHAVIOR; CATTLE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GPS; MAGNETOMETER; MOVEMENT; RELOCATION; SENSOR;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 67650000164     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.047     Document Type: Article

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