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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Geophysics Volume 2012, Article ID 418084, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/418084 Research Article Entropy-Based Clutter Rejection for Intrawall Diagnostics Raffaele Solimene and Antonietta D’Alterio Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, 81031 Aversa, Italy ` Correspondence should be addressed to Raffaele Solimene, raffaele.solimene@unina2.it Received 16 March 2012; Accepted 1 May 2012 Academic Editor: Francesco Soldovieri Copyright © 2012 R. Solimene and A. D’Alterio. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The intrawall diagnostic problem of detecting localized inhomogeneities possibly present within the wall is addressed. As well known, clutter arising from masonry structure can impair detection of embedded scatterers due to high amplitude reflections that wall front face introduces. Moreover, internal multiple reflections also can make it difficult ground penetrating radar images (radargramms) interpretation. To counteract these drawbacks, a clutter rejection method, properly tailored on the wall features, is mandatory. To this end, here we employ a windowing strategy based on entropy measures of temporal traces “similarity.” Accordingly, instants of time for which radargramms exhibit entropy values greater than a prescribed threshold are “silenced.” Numerical results are presented in order to show the effectiveness of the entropy-based clutter rejection algorithm. Moreover, a comparison with the standard a