Local statistic-based fusion of MIVIS VNIR and simulated TIR images

Local statistic-based fusion algorithms are discussed, which can be applied to fuse high-resolution VNIR images and a single low-resolution TIR image. These algorithms are based the experiments that structural information of observed objects In visible and near-infared spectral range (VNIR) is essentially correlated with the environmental information (especially moisture information) in thermal infrared spectral range (TIR). The local is performed at three scales. This algorithm can be useful method to merge the TM image and VNIR images.