An apparatus, system, and method of use for capturing data on an environment and determining a parameter of that environment. The apparatus having a housing, a sensor, and a controller, the sensor capturing data pertaining to the environment, the controller processing, by a data processing pipeline, the data to determine or estimate a parameter of the environment. In one embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus captures data on aquaculture environments and estimates parameters relating to underwater creature such as fish biomass, fish feeding state, or fish satiation score.