Cow space use, activity, and THI

Chopra, Kareemah and Codling, Edward A. 2025. Cow space use, activity, and THI. [Data Collection]. Colchester, University of Essex. 10.5526/ERDR-00000240

Collection description

Local positioning system (LPS) sensors were deployed on indoor dairy cows (c100) to track their location and activity. The sensors continuously recorded locations every 8 seconds and activity every 10 minutes. Temperature-humidity index (THI) was also continuously recorded around the barn every 10 minutes (from n = 16 temperature-only sensors and n = 20 humidity sensors). From these recordings, various metrics were calculated: mean time spent near key resources and in the feeding zone, mean and variance in activity, mean z value (recorded from the LPS), mean distance travelled during high activity, and the mean and variance of four bunching metrics (range size, inter-cow distance and nearest neighbour distance). These summary metrics are provided for each four-hour time period throughout the study duration.

Item Metadata

Item Type:

Data Collection

Creators:

Creators Name	Email	Affiliation	ORCID
Chopra, Kareemah	km19088@essex.ac.uk	University of Essex	https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1427-3384
Codling, Edward A.	ecodling@essex.ac.uk	University of Essex	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5124-3334

Division:

Faculty of Science and Health > Mathematical Sciences, Department of

Subjects:

Q Science > QA Mathematics
Q Science > QL Zoology
T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering

Keywords:

Local positioning system, Dairy cows, Space use

Research funder:

UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Grant reference:

BB/X00824X/1, BB/X008517/1, BB/X009564/1

Grant title:

Dairy Cow Heat Stress Within Building Microclimates

Depositor:

Kareemah Chopra

Date Deposited:

01 Dec 2025 12:25

Last Modified:

01 Dec 2025 12:25

URI:

http://researchdata.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/240

Coverage and Methodology

Collection period:

From	To
1 June 2024	1 December 2024

Geographic area:

Reading, UK

Country:

United Kingdom

Data type:

Database

Metadata language:

English

Resource language:

English

Access and Administration

Name	Email	Affiliation	ORCID
Chopra, Kareemah	km19088@essex.ac.uk	University of Essex	https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1427-3384
Zhang, Chenyu	c.zhang3@reading.ac.uk	University of Reading	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7581-9606
Liu, Chunde	liuc96@cardiff.ac.uk	Cardiff University	UNSPECIFIED
Luo, Zhiwen	luoz18@cardiff.ac.uk	Cardiff University	UNSPECIFIED
Reynolds, Christopher K.	c.k.reynolds@reading.ac.uk	University of Reading	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4152-1190
Amory, Jonathan R.	jonathan.amory@aru.ac.uk	Anglia Ruskin University	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0047-8739
Barker, Zoe E.	z.e.barker@reading.ac.uk	University of Reading	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8512-0831
Thurman, Andy	andy.thurman@omnisense.co.uk	Omnisense Limited	UNSPECIFIED
Codling, Edward A.	ecodling@essex.ac.uk	University of Essex	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5124-3334

Contact:

Name	Email	Affiliation	ORCID
Chopra, Kareemah	km19088@essex.ac.uk	University of Essex	https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1427-3384

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