Like to do what gdal_merge does with ArcGIS for .NET

[User5858]

I need to merge a series of drone JPG images into a GeoTIFF file.

I can do this with gdal_merge, but considering that I already have ArcGIS for .NET WPF SDK, I prefer not to install additional software on desktop machines. 

Can do what gdal_merge does with ArcGIS for .NET?

[dotMorten_esri]

If you have the location and orientation of the rasters, you could create a MosaicDatasetRaster: MosaicDatasetRaster Class 

This won't produce a single geotiff, but it would render all the images together as if they were one.