The automatic monitoring of pigs water use by cameras

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 164-169

  Kashiha, Mohammadamin ^a   Bahr, Claudia ^a   Haredasht, Sara Amirpour ^a   Ott, Sanne ^a,b   Moons, Christel P H ^b   Niewold, Theo A ^a   Ödberg, Frank O ^b   Berckmans, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Drink nipple visits; Pig barn; Pig welfare monitoring; Transfer function modelling; Water use monitoring

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMALS;

ANIMAL PRODUCTS; AUTOMATIC MONITORING; AUTOMATIC TOOLS; DRINK NIPPLE VISITS; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOUR-GROUP; FUNCTION MODELLING; HEALTH CONDITION; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; INSIDE TEMPERATURE; MANUAL MONITORING; PIG BARN; PIG HOUSE; WATER USE;

WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMAL WELFARE; AUTOMATION; FOOD PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; PIG; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84871922206     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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