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Unlike the conventional practice, which arbitrarily scales these factors, FlexibleNet uniformly scales the network width, depth, and resolution with a set of fixed scaling coefficients. The new model was tested by qualitatively estimating sequestered carbon in the aboveground forest biomass from Sentinel-2 images. We also created three different sizes of training datasets. The new training datasets consisted of six qualitative categories (no carbon, very low, low, medium, high, and very high). The results showed that FlexibleNet was better or comparable to the other lightweight or heavy CNN models concerning the number of parameters and time requirements. Moreover, FlexibleNet had the highest accuracy compared to these CNN models. 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