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Compared with traditional measurement methods, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing offers a cost-effective and efficient approach for rapidly obtaining crop LAI. Although there is extensive research on rice LAI estimation, many studies suffer from the limitations of models that are only applicable to specific scenarios with unclear applicability conditions. In this study, we selected commonly used RGB and multispectral (Ms) data sources, which contain three channels of color information and five multi-band information, respectively, combined with five different spatial resolutions of data at intervals of 20\u2013100 m. We evaluated the effectiveness of models using single- and multi-feature variables for LAI estimation in rice. In addition, texture and coverage features other than spectra were introduced to further analyze their effects on the inversion accuracy of the LAI. The results show that the accuracy of the model established with multi-variables under single features is significantly higher than that of the model established with single variables under single features. The best results were obtained using the RFR (random forest regression) model, in which the model\u2019s R2 is 0.675 and RMSE is 0.886 for multi-feature VIs at 40 m. Compared with the analysis results of Ms and RGB data at different heights, the accuracy of Ms data estimation results fluctuates slightly and is less sensitive to spatial resolution, while the accuracy of the results based on RGB data gradually decreases with the increase in height. The estimation accuracies of both Ms and RGB data were improved by adding texture features and coverage features, and their R2 improved by 9.1% and 7.3% on average. The best estimation heights (spatial resolution) of the two data sources were 40 m (2.2 cm) and 20 m (0.4 cm), with R2 of 0.724 and 0.673, and RMSE of 0.810 and 0.881. 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