1. A method for creating a color composite image fusion, comprising: providing one or more reflective input images and one or more thermal infrared input images, each image being defined by a plurality of gray scale pixel values; and employing a processor to 1) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more reflective input images only to a corresponding value in an intensity space (V) of an HSV color space, said HSV color space including a hue (H), saturation (S) chromaticity space and said intensity (V) space; 2) map each of said gray scale pixel values in said one or more thermal infrared images to a corresponding value in said HSV color space; and 3) generate a composite image from the values in said intensity space and said chromaticity space.