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Although satellite precipitation products can provide precipitation fields at various scales, their applications are limited by the relatively coarse spatial resolution and low accuracy. In this study, we propose a multi-source merging approach for generating accurate and high-resolution precipitation fields on a daily time scale. Specifically, a random effects eigenvector spatial filtering (RESF) method was first applied to downscale satellite precipitation datasets. The RESF method, together with Kriging, was then applied to merge the downscaled satellite precipitation products with station observations. The results were compared against observations and a data fusion dataset, the Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP). It was shown that the estimates of the proposed method significantly outperformed the individual satellite precipitation product, reducing the average value of mean absolute error (MAE) by 52%, root mean square error (RMSE) by 63%, and improving the mean value of Kling\u2013Gupta efficiency (KGE) by 157%, respectively. Daily precipitation estimates exhibited similar spatial patterns to the MSWEP products, and were more accurate in almost all cases, with a 42% reduction in MAE, 46% reduction in RMSE, and 79% improvement in KGE. 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