Tracking livestock using global positioning systems are we still lost?

Animal Production Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 167-175

  Swain, D L ^a   Friend, M A ^b   Bishop Hurley, G J ^c   Handcock, R N ^c   Wark, T ^c  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GPS; GRAZING; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MONITORING SYSTEM; MOVEMENT; SATELLITE DATA; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79952502425     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN10255     Document Type: Review

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