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Light direction and ranging (LiDAR) is widely used for estimating canopy height. Considering the high cost of acquiring LiDAR data over large areas, we took a two-stage up-scaling approach in estimating forest canopy height and aimed to develop a method for quantifying the uncertainty of the estimation result. Based on the generalized hierarchical model-based (GHMB) estimation framework, a new estimation framework named RK-GHMB that makes use of a geostatistical method (regression kriging, RK) was developed. In this framework, the wall-to-wall forest canopy height and corresponding uncertainty in map unit scale are generated. This study was carried out by integrating plot data, sampled airborne LiDAR data, and wall-to-wall Ziyuan-3 satellite (ZY3) stereo images. The result shows that RK-GHMB can obtain a similar estimation accuracy (r = 0.92, MAE = 1.50 m) to GHMB (r = 0.92, MAE = 1.52 m) with plot-based reference data. For LiDAR-based reference data, the accuracy of RK-GHMB (r = 0.78, MAE = 1.75 m) is higher than that of GHMB (r = 0.75, MAE = 1.85 m). The uncertainties for all map units range from 1.54 to 3.60 m for the RK-GHMB results. The values change between 1.84 and 3.60 m for GHMB. This study demonstrates that this two-stage up-scaling approach can be used to monitor forest canopy height. The proposed RK-GHMB approach considers the spatial autocorrelation of neighboring data in the second modeling stage and can achieve a higher accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030568","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,25]],"date-time":"2022-01-25T21:07:11Z","timestamp":1643144831000},"page":"568","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["An Improved Generalized Hierarchical Estimation Framework with Geostatistics for Mapping Forest Parameters and Its Uncertainty: A Case Study of Forest Canopy Height"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Junpeng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Forestry Remote Sensing and Information System, NFGA, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7546-0608","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Forestry Remote Sensing and Information System, NFGA, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"}]},{"given":"Erxue","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Forestry Remote Sensing and Information System, NFGA, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"}]},{"given":"Zengyuan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Forestry Remote Sensing and Information System, NFGA, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"}]},{"given":"Kunpeng","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Forestry Remote Sensing and Information System, NFGA, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"}]},{"given":"Xiangyuan","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Forestry Remote Sensing and Information System, NFGA, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2850","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2011.03.020","article-title":"The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle","volume":"115","author":"Quegan","year":"2011","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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