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The highest and the lowest phase centers acquired by the time-frequency optimization modify the conventional three-stage inversion process. This paper presents, for the first time, a performance assessment of the time-frequency optimization on P-band Pol-InSAR data over boreal forests. Simultaneously, to alleviate the model inversion errors caused by topographic fluctuations, forest height is estimated based on the sloped Random Volume over Ground (S-RVoG) model in which the incidence angle is corrected with the terrain slope. The E-SAR P-band Pol-InSAR data acquired during the BIOSAR 2008 campaign in Northern Sweden is utilized to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. From the results of the forest height estimation preprocessed with time-frequency optimization, the root mean square error (RMSE) of Random Volume over Ground (RVoG) and S-RVoG model on negative slope are 5.09 m and 4.71 m, respectively. 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