The study of underwater soundscapes, pioneered by Dr. Jeff Nystuen, includes information about geophonic, biological, and anthropogenic processes, many of which have distinct spectral characteristics. The contributors to the underwater ambient sound field can be quantified and classified using knowledge of these spectra. Long-term acoustic data recordings from a wide variety of depths and locations with high sampling frequencies have been analyzed to develop a robust soundscape classification algorithm based on Dr. Nystuen’s methods. Each one-minute of data has been evaluated to classify the soundscape into wind, rainfall, drizzle, heavy shipping, light shipping, other vessel activity, and biological phenomena. The power spectral density (PSD) level at twelve frequencies in the range of 0.03–30 kHz, as well as the spectral slope for the frequency range between 8 and 15kHz and kurtosis are used for the passive classification algorithm. After classification, the wind speed was quantified as a cubic function of PSD at 6 kHz and recording depth. The wind speed estimated from the acoustics compared very well to satellite data for speeds lower than 15 m/s. The classification algorithms are being embedded on a processor using Xilinx’s Zynq System-on-Chip that produces a 32-kHz hybrid millidecade spectrum in real-time on a logarithmic scale.