Dredging and placement of dredged material results in resuspension of sediment creating a plume in the water column. Monitoring the plume’s extent with appropriate temporal and spatial resolution is important when complying with regulations at the dredging and placement sites. In this study, a weather balloon-mounted RGB camera was used to acquire high resolution images near a dredge. Measurements of turbidity near the water surface and aerial images were concurrently acquired. Spectral calibration targets were positioned separately as part of each turbidity measurement and were in each images field of view. A post-processing script was developed and tested for the capability to automatically identify spectral calibration targets in each image, parse the spectral signatures, and correlate spectral data to turbidity data to create a monitoring application. This approach will help produce evidence-based information about a dredge plume on a larger scale and help engage the process of leveraging better-informed dredging strategies.