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The traditional methods are time-consuming, prompting the need for efficient alternatives. Recent advancements in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, particularly using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and RGB cameras, have emerged as promising solutions. LiDAR offers precise 3D data but is costly and computationally intensive. RGB and photogrammetry techniques like Structure from Motion and Multi-View Stereo (SfM-MVS) can be a cost-effective alternative to LiDAR, but the computational demands still exist. This paper introduces an innovative approach using UAV-based single-lens stereoscopic photography to overcome these limitations. This method utilizes color variations in canopies and a dual-image-input network to generate a detailed canopy height map (CHM). Additionally, a block structure similarity method is presented to enhance height estimation accuracy in single-lens UAV photography. As a result, the average rates of growth in canopy height (CH), canopy volume (CV), canopy width (CW), and canopy project area (CPA) were 3.296%, 9.067%, 2.772%, and 5.541%, respectively. The r2 values of CH, CV, CW, and CPA were 0.9039, 0.9081, 0.9228, and 0.9303, respectively. In addition, compared to the commonly used SFM-MVS approach, the proposed method reduces the time cost of canopy reconstruction by 95.2% and of the cost of images needed for canopy reconstruction by 88.2%. 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