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This is most important in cases where human safety is in jeopardy, such as hazards to navigation, mitigation of mine countermeasures, or unexploded ordnance. This study quantifies the absolute localization of targets, in the form of inert unexploded ordnance, in very shallow waters (2\u20133 m) on two intertidal bottom types in a meso-tidal environment (tide range = ~3.0 m). The two sites, a sandy intertidal flat and a mixed sand and gravel beach with abundant cobble-sized material, were seeded at low tide with targets (wax-filled 60-, 81-, 105- and 155-mm, projectile and mortar shells). An RTK-GPS was used to collect positional data for the targets and an unoccupied aerial system (UAS) survey was conducted on both sites. At the next high-tide, a vessel-based acoustic survey was performed, and at the subsequent low tide, the targets were re-surveyed with RTK-GPS. We focus here on the sidescan backscatter from a phase-measuring sidescan sonar (PMSS) and the sources of uncertainty for absolute localization. A total of 1426 calls of acoustic targets were made within the sidescan backscatter data, yielding an accuracy of 0.41 \u00b1 0.26 m, with 98.9% of all calls &lt;1 m from their absolute location. Distance from nadir was the most significant source of uncertainty, and targets between 3\u20137 m had the lowest uncertainty (0.32 \u00b1 0.23 m) with increasing values toward and away from nadir. Bathymetry and bathymetry-mode backscatter were less useful for the detection and classification of targets compared to sidescan backscatter, but once detected, the accuracy of absolute localization were similar. This is likely due to target calls from these two datasets that were orders of magnitude less and that focused on the larger sized targets, thus more work is needed to better understand these differences. Lastly, the absolute localization of targets detected on sandy and cobble bottoms for all datasets were statistically similar. These acoustic instruments, their datasets, and methods presented herein can better document the absolute localization within acoustic data for many uses in very shallow waters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15061626","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,17]],"date-time":"2023-03-17T05:06:01Z","timestamp":1679029561000},"page":"1626","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Absolute Localization of Targets Using a Phase-Measuring Sidescan Sonar in Very Shallow Waters"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Mark","family":"Borrelli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Coastal Processes and Ecosystems (CaPE) Laboratory, Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Ave, Provincetown, MA 02657, USA"},{"name":"School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, USA"}]},{"given":"Bryan","family":"Legare","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Coastal Processes and Ecosystems (CaPE) Laboratory, Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Ave, Provincetown, MA 02657, USA"}]},{"given":"Bryan","family":"McCormack","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Coastal Processes and Ecosystems (CaPE) Laboratory, Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Ave, Provincetown, MA 02657, USA"},{"name":"School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, USA"}]},{"given":"Pedro Paulo Guy Martins","family":"dos Santos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Coastal Processes and Ecosystems (CaPE) Laboratory, Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Ave, Provincetown, MA 02657, USA"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Solazzo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Coastal Processes and Ecosystems (CaPE) Laboratory, Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Ave, Provincetown, MA 02657, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"289","DOI":"10.1007\/s11001-017-9325-4","article-title":"Multi-angle backscatter classification and sub-bottom profiling for improved seafloor characterization","volume":"39","author":"Alevizos","year":"2017","journal-title":"Mar. 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