...from multiple sources to achieve refined/improved information for decision making. image fusion as the combination of two or more different images to form a new image by using a certain algorithm. Wald stresses that the terms merging and combination can be used in a much broader sense than fusion...

...suitable images for visual interpretation of land cover feature at scale 1:50.000. Data fusion means the combination of two or more different images to form a new image of high quality by using a certain algorithm in order to obtain a high resolution multispectral image...

...definitions for data fusion can be found in the literature. Pohl and van Genderen ( 1 998) proposed that "image fusion is the combination of two or more different...to form a new image by using a certain algorithm." Mangolini (1 994) extended data fusion to information in general and also referred to quality. He defined...