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While high-resolution albedo retrievals from satellites remain challenging, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer the ability to obtain albedo corresponding to the typical size of forest stands or even smaller areas, such as forest plots. Plots and pixels of sizes in the typical range of 200\u2013400 m2 are used as the basic units in forest management in the Nordic countries. In this study, the aim was to evaluate the effect of the differences in the footprint size of the measured albedo and fixed-area forest plots on the relationship between albedo and forest attributes. This was performed by examining the correlation between albedo and field-measured forest attributes and metrics derived from airborne laser scanner data using linear regression models. The albedo was measured by a UAV above 400 m2, circular forest plots (n = 128) for seven different flight heights above the top of the canopy. The flight heights were chosen so the plots were always smaller than the footprint of the measured albedo, and the area of a forest plot constituted 30\u201390% of the measured albedo. The applied pyranometer aboard the UAV measured the albedo according to a cosine response across the footprint. We found the strongest correlation when there was the greatest correspondence between the spatial size of the albedo footprint and the size of the forest plots, i.e., when the target area constituted 80\u201390% of the measured albedo. The measured albedo of the plots in both regeneration forests and mature forests were highly sensitive (p-values \u2264 0.001) to the footprint size, with a mean albedo difference of 11% between the smallest and largest footprints. The mean albedo of regeneration forests was 33% larger than that of mature forests for footprint sizes corresponding to 90%. 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