The DFTC has two main activities:
- organization of a special session held annually during the IGARSS meeting, gathering cutting edge contributions and covering various issues related to data fusion, such as: pan-sharpening, decision fusion, multimodal data fusion, data assimilation, multi-temporal data analysis, ensemble methods, etc.
- organization of the Data Fusion Contest, a scientific challenge held annually since 2006. The Contest is open not only to IEEE members, but to everyone, with the goal of evaluating existing methodologies at the research or operational level to solve remote sensing problems using data from a variety of sensors.