Behavioral classification of data from collars containing motion sensors in grazing cattle

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 110, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-102

  Gonzalez L A ^a   Bishop Hurley, G J ^a   Handcock, R N ^a   Crossman, C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Automatic; Behavior; GPS; Livestock; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAPHIC METHODS; MIXTURES; RADIO; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATIC; BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION OF DATA; ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIVESTOCK; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCELEROMETER; ALGORITHM; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GPS; GRAZING; LIVESTOCK FARMING;

BOS;

EID: 84909594823     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.10.018     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Altmann J. Observational study of behavior: sampling methods. Behaviour 1974, 49:227-267.
2. Anderson D.M., Winters C., Estell R.E., Fredrickson E.L., Doniec M., Detweiler C., Ru D., James D., Nolen B. Characterising the spatial and temporal activities of free-ranging cows from GPS data. Rangeland J. 2012, 34:149-161.
3. Anderson D.M., Estell R.E., Cibils A.F. Spatiotemporal cattle data-a plea for protocol standardization. Positioning 2013, 4:115-136.
4. Augustine D.J., Derner J.D. Assessing herbivore foraging behavior with GPS collars in a semiarid grassland. Sensors 2013, 13:3711-3723.
5. Cai G., Chen B.M., Lee T.H. Unmanned rotorcraft systems. Advances in Industrial Control 2011, Springer-Verlag London Limited.
6. Cohen J. A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educ. Psychol. Meas. 1960, 20:37-46.
7. Gaillard J.M., Hebblewhite M., Loison A., Fuller M., Powell R., Basille M., Van Moorter B. Habitat-performance relationships: finding the right metric at a given spatial scale. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 2010, 365:2255-2265.
8. Ganskopp D.C., Johnson D.D. GPS error in studies addressing animal movements and activities. Rangeland Ecol. Manage. 2007, 60:350-358.
9. González L.A., Tolkamp B.J., Coffey M.P., Ferret A., Kyriazakis I. Changes in feeding behavior as possible indicators for the automatic monitoring of health disorders in dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 2008, 91:1017-1028.
10. Handcock R.N., Swain D.L., Bishop-Hurley G.J., Patison K.P., Wark T., Valencia P., Corke P., O'Neill C.J. Monitoring animal behaviour and environmental interactions using wireless sensor networks, GPS collars and satellite remote sensing. Sensors 2009, 9:3586-3603.
11. Heglund N.C., Taylor C.R. Speed, stride frequency and energy cost per stride: how do they change with body size and gait?. J. Exp. Biol. 1988, 138:301-318.
12. McLachlan G.J., Peel D. Finite Mixture Models 2000, John Wiley & Sons Publishers.
13. Martiskainen P., Jarvinen M., Skon J.P., Tiirikainen J., Kolehmainen M., Mononen J. Cow behavior pattern recognition using a three-dimensional accelerometer and support vector machines. Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 2009, 119:32-38.
14. Nadimi V., Søgaard H.T. Observer Kalman filter identification and multiple-model adaptive estimation technique for classifying animal behaviour using wireless sensor networks. Comput. Electr. Agric. 2009, 68:9-17.
15. Nadimi E.S., Jørgensen R.N., Blanes-Vidal V., Christensen S. Monitoring and classifying animal behavior using ZigBee-based mobile ad hoc wireless sensor networks and artificial neural networks. Comput. Electr. Agric. 2012, 82:44-54.
16. Owen-Smith N., Fryxell J.M., Merrill E.H. Foraging theory upscaled: the behavioural ecology of herbivore movement. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 2013, 365:2267-2278.
17. Ruiz-Mirazo J., Bishop-Hurley G.J., Swain D.L. Automated animal control: can discontinuous monitoring and aversive stimulation modify cattle grazing behaviour?. Rangeland Ecol. Manage. 2011, 64:240-248.
18. Stobbs T.H. Automatic measurement of grazing time by dairy cows on tropical grass and legume pastures. Trop. Grasslands 1970, 4:237-244.
19. Swain D.L., Wark T., Bishop-Hurley G.J. Using high fix rate GPS data to determine the relationships between fix rate, prediction errors and patch selection. Ecol. Model. 2008, 212:273-279.
20. Tolkamp B.J., Schweitzer D.P., Kyriazakis I. The biologically relevant unit for the analysis of short-term feeding behavior of dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 2000, 83:2057-2068.
21. Ueda Y., Akiyama F., Asakuma S., Watanabe N. Technical note: the use of a physical activity monitor to estimate the eating time of cows in pasture. J. Dairy Sci. 2011, 94:3498-3503.
22. Ungar E.D., Henkin Z., Gutman M., Dolev A., Genizi A., Ganskopp D. Inference of animal activity from GPS collar data on free-ranging cattle. Rangeland Ecol. Manage. 2005, 58:256-266.
23. Wark T., Corke P., Sikka P., Klingbeil L., Guo Y., Crossman C., Valencia P., Swain D., Bishop-Hurley G. Transforming agriculture through pervasive wireless sensor networks. IEEE Pervasive Comput. 2007, 6:50-57.