“…Therefore, the detection and classification of illegal vessels situated in law-protected areas represent a poignant need for the surveillance and protection of the coastal ecosystem. Nowadays, there is a large number of applications that involve maritime classification tasks, such as the identification of underwater archaeological remains (ORENGO; GARCIA-MOLSOSA, 2019), the inspection of underwater structures for the offshore industry (XU et al, 2016;CHEN et al, 2019), the surveillance of shorelines (DÄSTNER et al, 2018), the identification of vessels (CHOI; CHOO; LEE, 2019), as well as applications in environmental sciences, like counting and classifying the marine life behaviour for biological research (TERAYAMA et al, 2019). Also worth mentioning are studies relating the acoustic signals in the sea to environmental pollution, affecting not only the marine life (ERBE et al, 2019;MERCHANT et al, 2014;ROSSI et al, 2016), but also the human activities in port areas (NASTASI et al, 2020;MCKENNA et al, 2012;BOCANEGRA et al, 2022).…”