Finding Illegal Fish Bomb Blasts in Tanzania using Machine Learning and JavaFX

Most research into wild marine mammals occurs in wealthy countries. Amazingly, in 2018, we have still have very little idea what species are present, let alone the population size / health status / behaviour, etc. in many parts of the world. A solid first step to address this problem is to conduct a rapid assessment survey to determine which species of marine mammals are present in a given area. The idea of a rapid assessment survey is fairly straightforward: you take a boat out and survey the entire coastline of a country using visual observers to record the number and species of any whales and dolphins encountered. As well as being large, surface present and often charismatic animals, and so possible to detect visually at relatively long ranges, dolphins and whales are also highly vocal, using sound to communicate and some species hunt/sense their surroundings with a sophisticated a bio-sonar.