Performance of evaluation methods in image fusion

Many algorithms and software tools have been developed for fusing panchromatic and multispectral datasets in remote sensing. Also, a number of methods has been proposed and developed for the comparative evaluation of fusion results. To this date, however, no papers have been published that analyze effectiveness and quality of the evaluation techniques. In our study, methods that evaluate fusion quality are tested for different images and test sites. This analysis shows that in most cases the tested methods perform well, but are sometimes inconsistent with visual analysis results.