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Limited by its working principles, SAR images are not easily interpreted, and fusing SAR images with optical multispectral images is a good solution to improve the interpretability of SAR images. This paper presents a novel image fusion method based on non-subsampled shearlet transform and activity measure to fuse SAR images with multispectral images, whose aim is to improve the interpretation ability of SAR images easily obtained at any time, rather than producing a fused image containing more information, which is the pursuit of previous fusion methods. Three different sensors, together with different working frequencies, polarization modes and spatial resolution SAR datasets, are used to evaluate the proposed method. 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