A new approach based on a ground penetrating radar is proposed to detect and locate a metallic object hidden in a lossy ground. In this approach, the object is illuminated by a dipole antenna and the resultant scattered electric field is monitored at a distance above the ground. The detection and locating of the object are based on the simulation results obtained using a full-wave solution of the forward-scattering problem with the least simplifying approximations. To solve the problem, the metallic object is first modeled as a network of thin-wire conductors. The governing electric field integral equation (EFIE) is then solved efficiently using the method of moments in the frequency domain. Also, the air-ground interface is modeled using the modified image theory.