Automated oestrus detection method for group housed sows using acceleration measurements

Precision Livestock Farming 2007 - Papers Presented at the 3rd European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 211-217

  Cornou, C ^a   Heiskanen, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Control charts; Dynamic linear model; Group housed sows; Oestrus detection

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCELEROMETERS; AGRICULTURE; CONTROL CHARTS;

ACCELERATION DATA; DATA COLLECTION; DETECTION METHODS; DETECTION MODELS; DYNAMIC LINEAR MODEL; GROUP-HOUSED SOWS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; THREE DIMENSIONS;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 84890827066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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