A camera apparatus including a central processing unit configured to capture raw image sensor data of a field-of-view of an agricultural field, concurrently execute a plurality of different image transformation operations in a single pass on the captured raw image sensor data to obtain a processed image output, based on an one-time read of pixel values of the captured raw image sensor data and push the processed image output in a shared memory accessible to a plurality of application nodes in the camera apparatus. The camera apparatus includes a graphical processing unit configured to execute a first neural network model on the processed image output to detect one or more foliage regions in the processed image output and concomitantly execute a second neural network model on the processed image output to detect one or more crop plants in the processed image output.