Acoustic monitoring system to quantify ingestive behavior of free-grazing cattle

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-104

  Clapham, William M ^a   Fedders, James M ^a   Beeman, Kim ^b   Neel, James P S ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN FARMING SYSTEMS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Engineering Design   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Cattle; Forage; Grazing behavior; Intake

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; CATTLE; FORAGE; GRAZING BEHAVIOR; INTAKE;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DATA REDUCTION;

MONITORING;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CATTLE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; FORAGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAZING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 79955111189     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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