One of the key prospects of data fusion is focused on exploiting the complementary information among different sensors. In this paper, the multiple classifiers approach is utilized for the multisource classification/data fusion to fully utilize as much of the available information among different data sources as possible. Three different weighting policies (variance reduction technique, rms distance weighting, and average distance weighting) applied to the multiple classifiers approach are introduced. The performance of each combination method was demonstrated and compared with the fusion of the SAR and optical images for the terrain cover classification. Experimental results show that the classification accuracy is dramatically improved by making use of the proposed method. In addition, both the multiple classifiers using the rms (root mean squared) distance weighting and the average distance weighting outperform that of using the variance reduction technique.