Applying and using fiducial markings on agricultural apparatuses

A method implemented by one or more processors of one or more robots, the method comprising:

• in an agricultural area that includes a plurality of plants each extending through an aperture in a synthetic mulch that is disposed over the agricultural area and that includes a plurality of fiducial markings configured to detect one or more properties of soil of the agricultural area and that are detectable by a robot, causing the one or more robots to identify each of the plurality of fiducial markings in the agricultural area and to generate, via one or more of the processors, correspondence data that correlates each plant of the plurality of plants to one or more of the plurality of fiducial markings;
• wherein the correspondence data enables one or more of the robots to subsequently navigate through the agricultural area to locate a particular plant of the plurality of plants and perform an operation in furtherance of affecting a physical condition of the particular plant.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

• correspondence data that correlates each plant of a plurality of plants growing in an agricultural area to one or more robot-detectable fiducial markings on synthetic mulch that is disposed over the agricultural area and configured to detect one or more properties of soil of the agricultural area and, such that the correspondence data enables one or more robots to navigate through an agricultural area to locate an individual plant of the plurality of plants and perform an operation in furtherance of affecting a physical condition of the individual plant;
• wherein the correspondence data was generated by causing one or more robots to identify, in the agricultural area that includes the plurality of plants each extending through an aperture in the synthetic mulch, each robot-detectable fiducial marking in the agricultural area and to generate the correspondence data.