Opportunities to apply precision livestock management on rangelands

DW Bailey, MG Trotter, C Tobin… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Precision livestock management has become a new field of study as the result of recent
advancements in real-time global positioning system (GPS) tracking, accelerometer and …

Use of GPS tracking collars and accelerometers for rangeland livestock production research

DW Bailey, MG Trotter, CW Knight… - Translational Animal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Over the last 20 yr, global positioning system (GPS) collars have greatly enhanced livestock
grazing behavior research. Practices designed to improve livestock grazing distribution can …

Classifying season long livestock grazing behavior with the use of a low-cost GPS and accelerometer

J Brennan, P Johnson, K Olson - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2021 - Elsevier
Remote tracking of livestock through the use of GPS technology has tremendous potential
for the study of livestock use patterns on the landscape. The addition of high frequency …

Tracking livestock using global positioning systems–are we still lost?

DL Swain, MA Friend, GJ Bishop-Hurley… - Animal Production …, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
Since the late 1980s, satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS) have provided
unique and novel data that have been used to track animal movement. Tracking animals …

GPS tracking cattle as a monitoring tool for conservation and management

JM Schieltz, S Okanga, BF Allan… - African journal of range …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of GPS technology has resulted in significant advances in the ease and
flexibility of studying animal movement patterns, yet barriers remain to the widespread use of …

Real-Time Monitoring of Grazing Cattle Using LORA-WAN Sensors to Improve Precision in Detecting Animal Welfare Implications via Daily Distance Walked Metrics

S Nyamuryekung'e, G Duff, S Utsumi, R Estell… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Global positioning system (GPS) coordinates are often used to calculate
distance traveled, a useful metric for research and decision-making processes in livestock …

[HTML][HTML] Precision Livestock Farming technologies in pasture-based livestock systems

C Aquilani, A Confessore, R Bozzi, F Sirtori, C Pugliese - Animal, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) encompasses the combined application of
single technologies or multiple tools in integrated systems for real-time and individual …

Multi-dimensional Precision Livestock Farming: A potential toolbox for sustainable rangeland management

A di Virgilio, JM Morales, SA Lambertucci… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Background Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is a promising approach to minimize the
conflicts between socio-economic activities and landscape conservation. However, its …

Precision livestock farming applications (PLF) for grazing animals

C Tzanidakis, O Tzamaloukas, P Simitzis, P Panagakis - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the past four decades the dietary needs of the global population have been elevated,
with increased consumption of animal products predominately due to the advancing …

Assessment of a livestock GPS collar based on an open‐source datalogger informs best practices for logging intensity

DA McGranahan, B Geaumont… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ecologists have used Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to track animals for 30
years. Issues today include logging frequency and precision in estimating space use and …