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In order to make up for this deficiency and take advantage of the complementary for multi-source remote sensing data in forest canopy height mapping, a new method to estimate forest canopy height was proposed by synergizing the spaceborne LiDAR (ICESat-2) data, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, multi-spectral images, and topographic data considering forest types. In this study, National Geographical Condition Monitoring (NGCM) data was used to extract the distributions of coniferous forest (CF), broadleaf forest (BF), and mixed forest (MF) in Hua\u2019 nan forest area in Heilongjiang Province, China. Accordingly, the forest canopy height estimation models for whole forest (all forests together without distinguishing types, WF), CF, BF, and MF were established, respectively, by Radom Forest (RF) and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT). The accuracy for established models and the forest canopy height obtained based on estimation models were validated consequently. The results showed that the forest canopy height estimation models considering forest types had better performance than the model grouping all types of forest together. Compared with GBDT, RF with optimal variables had better performance in forest canopy height estimation with Pearson\u2019s correlation coefficient (R) and the root-mean-squared error (RMSE) values for CF, BF, and MF of 0.72, 0.59, 0.62, and 3.15, 3.37, 3.26 m, respectively. It has been validated that a synergy of ICESat-2 with other remote sensing data can make a crucial contribution to spatio-continuous forest canopy height mapping, especially for areas covered by different types of forest.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14020364","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,14]],"date-time":"2022-01-14T03:14:03Z","timestamp":1642130043000},"page":"364","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":66,"title":["Forest Canopy Height Mapping by Synergizing ICESat-2, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Topographic Information Based on Machine Learning Methods"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Zhilong","family":"Xi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Forest Operations and Environment, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"},{"name":"College of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Heilongjiang Institute of Technology, Harbin 150050, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huadong","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering and Technology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanqiu","family":"Xing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Forest Operations and Environment, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Weishu","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guizhen","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Economic Management Science, Ministry of Natural Resources (Heilongjiang Provincial Research Institute of Surveying and Mapping), Harbin 150081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuhang","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Forest Operations and Environment, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"393","DOI":"10.1016\/S0034-4257(02)00130-X","article-title":"Remote sensing estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: Carbon pools, sources, and sinks","volume":"84","author":"Dong","year":"2003","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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