Precision livestock farming / / edited by S. Cox.

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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Scientific panel""; ""Reviewers""; ""International program committee of the 1st ECPLF""; ""Contents""; ""Editorial""; ""A proposal for an "Agrar BUS" as a Farm Area Network""; ""Results of continuous measurements of ear temperature in boars""; ""Controlling growth of broiler chickens on-line, based on a compact predictive growth model""; ""Non-invasive sensors for monitoring the body temperature and heart rate of pigs during transport""; ""A proposed new empirical model for the lactation curve of the cow and its use with a milking database for farm management""
  • ""The development of integrated management systems for livestock production""""Information monitoring system for surveillance of animal welfare during transport""; ""Operation of electronic identification devices in northern winter climate""; ""Evaluation of a dry matter intake model for individual cows""; ""Improvement of teat cup attachment in automatic milking systems by using teat coordinates""; ""Individual identification of dairy cows by their voice""; ""Infrared positioning system to identify the location of animals""
  • ""Satellite based spatial information on pastures improves Australian sheep production""""Improving oestrus detection in dairy cows by combination of different traits using fuzzy logic""; ""Telemetric measurement of heart rate and heart rate variability for evaluating psychological stress induced by visual discrimination learning in dwarf goats""; ""Variable milking frequency in large dairies: performance and economic analysis - models and experiments""; ""Evaluation of udder cleanliness by spectroscopy""
  • ""The IDEF0 functional modelling method applied to autonomous precision feeding systems for dairy cows""""Telemetric measurement and monitoring of animal welfare parameters and its importance for precision livestock farming""; ""Modelling the nutrient cycle on grassland dairy farms""; ""A neural network for the analysis and monitoring of stress calls of pigs""; ""Comparison of grass sward dry matter yield assessment with imaging spectroscopy, disk plate meter and Cropscan""; ""Imaging spectroscopy for grassland management""
  • ""Sensor- supported cleaning and disinfection of the surface of Automatic Milking Systems (AMS)""""Secure identification, source verification of livestock - The value of retinal images and GPS""; ""The importance of sampling time for online mastitis detection by using the electrical conductivity or measuring the Na+ and Cl-content in milk""; ""Authors index""; ""Keyword index""