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For X-band electromagnetic waves, the penetration depth of radar waves in forests is limited, so the traditional forest height estimation method is no longer applicable. In view of the above problems, in this paper we propose a new forest height estimation strategy for airborne X-band PolInSAR data. Firstly, the sub-view interferometric SAR pairs obtained via frequency segmentation (FS) in the Doppler domain are used to extend the polarimetric interferometry coherence coefficient (PolInCC) range of the original SAR image under different polarization states, so as to obtain the accurate ground phase. For the determination of the effective volume coherence coefficient (VCC), part of the fitting line of the extended-range PolInCC distribution that is intercepted by the fixed extinction coherence coefficient curve (FECCC) of the fixed range is averaged to obtain the accurate effective VCC. Finally, the high-precision forest canopy height in the X-band is estimated using the effective VCC with the ground phase removed in the look-up table (LUT). The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified using airborne-measured data obtained in Shaanxi Province, China. The comparison was carried out using different strategies, in which we substituted one step of the process with the conventional method. The results indicated that our new strategy could reduce the root mean square error (RMSE) of the predicted canopy height vastly to 1.02 m, with a lower estimation height error of 12.86%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14194743","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,22]],"date-time":"2022-09-22T23:07:55Z","timestamp":1663888075000},"page":"4743","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A New Strategy for Forest Height Estimation Using Airborne X-Band PolInSAR Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2718-0446","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinwei","family":"Xie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}]},{"given":"Long","family":"Zhuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"440","article-title":"Synthetic aperture radars","volume":"AES\u201321","author":"Wiley","year":"2007","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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