Combining information from different sources to obtain information of greater quality for the end user.

Data fusion practices are often ranked as low, intermediate or high, depending on the processing stage at which fusion takes place. Low level fusion, integrates several sources of raw data to create new raw data. The assumption is that this fused data is more informative than the original inputs.

See also:
Data Collection
Data Entry
Data Fusion
Data Mining
Data Processing
Database Marketing
Data Protection Act