In this paper, the interaction between a measurement system, the landmine, and the soil is investigated to detect an unknown buried object. In particular, the performance of different approaches for landmine localization using electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) methods is investigated in terms of their detection efficiency and computational efficiency. The considered methods include the classical time-domain EMTR, iterative EMTR, EMTR-DORT (decomposition of the time reversal operator), and EMTR-MUSIC (Multiple signal classification). The obtained simulation results show that EMTR is a promising technique for landmine detection and localization.
