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Inertial sensor data of horses from four breeds at walk and trot in hand on a straight line

  • Annik Imogen Gmel*
  • , Eyrún Halla Haraldsdóttir
  • , Filipe Serra-Bragança
  • , Luis P. Lamas
  • , Teresa V. Rosa
  • , Monika Stefaniuk-Szmukier
  • , Weronika Klecel
  • , Markus Neuditschko
  • , Michael A. Weishaupt
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Agroscope
  • University of Zurich
  • University of Lisbon
  • University of Agriculture in Krakow
  • Warsaw University of Life Sciences

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Abstract

Horses have been used and bred for centuries for their movements. However, specific breeds are expected to have different movement capabilities. We have measured 425 horses from four different breeds at walk and trot on a straight line using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) system (EquiMoves®). This article describes how the data was collected, filtered and analysed to provide a useable dataset of 28 movement variables. It provides a full protocol for field measurements and requirements for adequate trials for analysis. Intra-class correlation coefficient estimates are also provided to assess repeatability of the measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Article number110764
Number of pages12
JournalData in Brief
Volume55
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2024

Bibliographical note

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Funding

Our special thanks go to our core team of horse handlers, Jeremie Korpes, Herve Sapin, Chris-tian Gerber and Ludovic Taillard, who have trotted most of the horses in Switzerland over the span of three years. We thank all the horse owners giving us access to their horses for perform-ing the measurements. We are grateful for the photographer Christelle Althaus for providing the photographs used to illustrate our methods section. This study was funded by the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) under contract number 627001851 .

FundersFunder number
Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG)627001851

    Keywords

    • Equine
    • Gait quality
    • Locomotion
    • Protraction
    • Retraction
    • Stride length

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