Patent ID: 11896003
Assignee: MINERAL EARTH SCIENCES LLC
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. An agricultural apparatus comprising:
at least one strip of synthetic mulch configured to be lain over an agricultural area, wherein the strip of synthetic mulch defines a plurality of openings to facilitate growth of a plurality of plants; and
a plurality of fiducials configured to detect one or more properties of soil of the agricultural area and disposed on the strip of synthetic mulch, wherein each of the plurality of fiducials are disposed on the synthetic mulch at defined spatial relationships relative to the plurality of openings and are detectable by one or more robots;
wherein each of the plurality of fiducials is usable by one or more of the robots to generate correspondence data that correlates each fiducial of the plurality of fiducials to one or more of the openings.