“…At present, IHS (LI and WANG, 2001;TSAI, 2004), Brovey Transformation (BINH et al, 2006), PCA (AMARSAIKHAN & DOUGLAS, 2004), HPF (BETHUNE et al, 1998;AIAZZI et al, 2006a), DWT (ZHANG & HONG 2005;JIN et al, 2006), Gram Schmidt Transformation (AIAZZI et al, 2006b), Smoothing Filter Based Intensity Modulation (LIU, 2000), Synthetic Variable Ratio (ZHANG, 1999) are among the pixel based image fusion algorithms generally used. In the literature, there are several studies comparing these techniques analyzed by Zhou et al (1998), Zhang and Hong (2005), Colditz et al (2006), Teggi et al (2003), Shi et al (2005), Wang and Bovik (2002). Fusion methods are used for gathering information from SAR and Optical data for various purposes such as qualifying the fused images (ROKHMATULOH et al, 2003;SHI et al, 2005) for enhancement of the geological information gathered (Pal et al, 2007), and assessing the contribution of fusion techniques to rural and urban land use classification (AMARSAIKHAN et al, 2012;KURUCU et al, 2009;KUPLICH et al, 2000;SUN et al, 2003).…”