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Free tools and open access data have already been exploited to produce accurate quantitative forest parameters maps suitable for policy and operational purposes. These efforts have relied on different data sources, tools, and methods that are tailored for specific forest types and climatic conditions. We hypothesized we could build on these efforts in order to produce a generic method suitable to perform as well or better in a larger range of settings. In this study we focus on building a generic approach to create forest parameters maps and confirm its performance on a test site: a maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) forest located in south west of France. We investigated and assessed options related with the integration of multiple data sources (SAR L- and C-band, optical indexes and spatial texture indexes from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and ALOS-PALSAR-2), feature extraction, feature selection and machine learning techniques. On our test case, we found that the combination of multiple open access data sources has synergistic benefits on the forest parameters estimates. The sensibility analysis shows that all the data participate to the improvements, that reach up to 13.7% when compared to single source estimates. Accuracy of the estimates is as follows: aboveground biomass (AGB) 28% relative RMSE, basal area (BA) 27%, diameter at breast height (DBH) 20%, age 17%, tree density 24%, and height 13%. Forward feature selection and SVR provided the best estimates. Future work will focus on validating this generic approach in different settings. It may prove beneficial to package the method, the tools, and the integration of open access data in order to make spatially accurate and regularly updated forest structure parameters maps effortlessly available to national bodies and forest organizations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11111275","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,29]],"date-time":"2019-05-29T11:31:28Z","timestamp":1559129488000},"page":"1275","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":66,"title":["Estimation and Mapping of Forest Structure Parameters from Open Access Satellite Images: Development of a Generic Method with a Study Case on Coniferous Plantation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7711-2770","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Morin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]},{"given":"Milena","family":"Planells","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]},{"given":"Dominique","family":"Guyon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Int\u00e9raction Sol Plante Atmosph\u00e8re (ISPA), INRA, UMR 1391, 33882 Villenave d\u2019Ornon, France"}]},{"given":"Ludovic","family":"Villard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3166-7583","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"St\u00e9phane","family":"Mermoz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"},{"name":"Global Earth Observation (GlobEO), 31400 Toulouse, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7428-4339","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexandre","family":"Bouvet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7365-3227","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Herv\u00e9","family":"Thevenon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8626-0169","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jean-Fran\u00e7ois","family":"Dejoux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]},{"given":"Thuy","family":"Le Toan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8383-6465","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"G\u00e9rard","family":"Dedieu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre D\u00e9tudes Spatiales De La Biosph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, CNES\/CNRS\/IRD\/UT3, UMR 5126, 31401 Toulouse, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2015). 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