Mozambique has the fourth-longest coastline in Africa, stretching over 2700 kilometers along the Indian Ocean and extended volumes of Marine Debris (MD) can be seen in most of the beaches. Traditional MD monitoring efforts involve few Mozambicans using in-situ visual census methods to count, classify and recollect the individual marine litter items. Guidelines and protocols have been designed to standardize the performance of monitoring strategy on the beaches, defining holistic metrics of the survey, such as alongshore beach sector length, fraction size of items and frequency of the in-situ surveys. These surveys are widely employed in most developing countries due to their low cost and minimal equipment required by inexperienced surveyors under instruction; however, the analysis still needs high-demanding manual work while also being time-consuming and spatially limited (100m – 500m transects). To positively influence and support decision-making actions, accurate large scale monitoring systems need to be in place.