Evaluation of Image Informativeness in Multispectral Monitoring Systems with Image Fusion

In this paper an analysis of known methods of image informativeness is carried out. It was found that in many cases existing methods are not working correctly, in particular, give an inflated evaluation, which is not consistent with human visual perception. A new method that allows us to evaluate the image informativeness more adequately the image informativeness is proposed. The adequacy of the results, obtained with the help of the proposed method was confirmed by a sociological survey of a group of 30 respondents who gave an expert evaluation of the informativeness of test images. As a result, it was proved experimentally that the proposed method gives a more correct evaluate of the image informativeness.