Information on the health status of dairy cattle is important not only for healthy breeding of cattle but
also for human consumption of milk from dairy cattle. The health status of dairy cattle is analyzed by
using various measurement data in a wide variety of ways, and in particular, methods utilizing the results
of body temperature measurement are mainly made. In this study, we measured the body temperature of
dairy cattle through temperature measurement method using a thermal camera, which is a non - contact
method and used the results to determine the marker position for measuring the cattle’s body temperature.
For this purpose, temperature was measured for various body parts of 7 dairy cattle at breeding farms in
Cheonan, and it was confirmed that the measurement method using thermogravimetric images from 38 to 40 ℃, which is almost similar to the temperature by the methods proposed in the previous studies, is
applicable to dairy cows. And also it was found that the marker positions of dairy cattle could be near the
oculus, the ear, the breast, and the anus from the experimental results.