Quantifying walking and standing behaviour of dairy cows using a moving average based on output from an accelerometer

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 12-19

  Nielsen, Lars Relund ^a   Pedersen, Asger Roer ^b   Herskin, Mette S ^b   Munksgaard, Lene ^b  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Dairy cows; Lameness; Walking standing behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ALLEY CROPPING; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CATTLE; DAIRY FARMING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOUSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

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EID: 77957109623     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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