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However, the filtering calibration requires considerable knowledge from users, who normally perform it by trial and error without knowing the impacts of the calibration on the produced DTM and the forest attribute estimation. Therefore, this work aims at calibrating four popular filtering algorithms and assessing their impact on the quality of the DTM and the estimation of forest attributes through the area-based approach. The analyzed filters were the progressive triangulated irregular network (PTIN), weighted linear least-squares interpolation (WLS) multiscale curvature classification (MCC), and the progressive morphological filter (PMF). The calibration was established by the vertical DTM accuracy, the root mean squared error (RMSE) using 3240 high-accuracy ground control points. The calibrated parameter sets were compared to the default ones regarding the quality of the estimation of the plot growing stock volume and the dominant height through multiple linear regression. The calibrated parameters allowed for producing DTM with RMSE varying from 0.25 to 0.26 m, against a variation from 0.26 to 0.30 m for the default parameters. The PTIN was the least affected by the calibration, while the WLS was the most affected. Compared to the default parameter sets, the calibrated sets resulted in dominant height equations with comparable accuracies for the PTIN, while WLS, MCC, and PFM reduced the models\u2019 RMSE by 6.5% to 10.6%. The calibration of PTIN and MCC did not affect the volume estimation accuracy, whereas calibrated WLS and PMF reduced the RMSE by 3.4% to 7.9%. 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