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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan author Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus author Río Fernández, Joaquín del author Kieft, B author O'Reilly, Thomas C. author Aguzzi, Jacopo author Bouvet, Pierre-Jean author Fannjiang, Clara author Katija, Kakani author 2019 © 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The use of autonomous underwater vehicles for ocean research has increased as they have a better cost/performance ratio than crewed oceanographic vessels. For example, autonomous vehicles (e.g. a Wave Glider) can be used to localise and track underwater targets. Whereas other researchers have been focused on target tracking using acoustic modems, here we present a novelty method called area-only target tracking. This method works with commercially available acoustic tags, thereby reducing the costs and complexity over other tracking systems. Moreover, this method can be used to track small targets such as jellyfishes due to the tag’s size. The methodology behind the area-only technique is shown, and results from the first field tests conducted in Monterey Bay area are also presented. Peer Reviewed Postprint (author's final draft) Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria agroalimentària::Ciències de la terra i de la vida Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Nàutica Autonomous vehicles Underwater target localization Autonomous vehicles Wave glider Area-only Biologging Tracking Tag Vehicles autònoms Area-only method for underwater tagged animals tracking usign autonomous vehicles