Patent ID: 8027770

Claim:
A system for selective treatment of plants arranged in rows comprising: a camera arranged over a row of plants extending along a first direction; a set of treatment units arranged at a first distance behind said camera along said first direction and over said row of plants; means for moving said camera along said first direction while obtaining images of a target area comprising one or more plants in said row that are to be treated; means for moving said set of treatment units along said first direction behind said camera while maintaining said first distance; means for generating a map of digitized unitary spots covering said target area based on said obtained images and means for sending said generated map to a computing unit; a plant treatment application executed by said computing unit and comprising means for adding spot-specific plant treatment instructions to said generated map; means for synchronizing said set of treatment units to treat each of said unitary spots in said target area according to the spot-specific plant treatment instructions when said set of treatment units is positioned over each of said unitary spot at a treatment-time; wherein said set of treatment units comprises a plurality of individually controllable treatment units arranged consecutively along the first direction and wherein each of said consecutively arranged individually controllable treatment units consecutively applies a fraction of the entire spot-specific plant treatment instructions to each unitary spot in the target area until the entire spot-specific plant treatment instructions are fulfilled.