Patent ID: 9250226
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A01K,G01N,G06F,G07C,G16Z,Y02W

Claim Text:
1. A method for estimating a greenhouse gas emission from a ruminant in a loose housing environment, and in a predetermined time period from T0 to Tdesired, the method implemented by particularly programmed processing circuitry comprises: determining a model emission rate function EM(t) for the ruminant; determining the moments of eating feed by the ruminant, at least during the predetermined time period, as a series of points in time {T1, T2, T3, . . . , Tn}; constructing the estimated real emission rate function ER(t) on the basis of the model emission rate function and the moments of eating feed; integrating ER(t) from T0 to Tdesired; and estimating the greenhouse gas emission from the ruminant based on a result of integrating ER(t) from T0 to Tdesired.