“…Several methods have been proposed for image fusion including the intensity-hue-saturation (IHS) method (Choi, 2006;Tu et al, 2005), principal components analysis (PCA) (Ehlers, 1991;RigolSánchez and Chica-Olmo, 1998), high-pass filter (HPF) method (Chavez et al, 1991), smoothing filter based intensity modulation (Liu, 2000), wavelet transform and multiscale Kalman filter (Aiazzi et al, 2002;Amolins et al, 2007;Garguet-Duport et al, 1996;LilloSaavedra and Gonzalo, 2006;Nuñez et al, 1999;Ranchin and Wald, 2000;Ranchin et al, 2003;Simone et al, 2002) and machine learning methods (Mianji et al, 2009;Zheng et al, 2008) to name just a few. It is beyond the scope of this paper to review and compare the above methods, among which is cokriging, and the geostatistical multivariate prediction method (Memarsadeghi et al, 2005;Nishii et al, 1996).…”