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The objective of this second paper is to provide an assessment of that approach at site scale, specifically at 12 FLUXNET sites where more accurate data are available. Estimates of tree heights from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) waveform data are used for model optimization. Amongst the five possible GLAS metrics that are representative of tree heights, the best metric is selected based on how closely the metric resembles field-measured and Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor tree heights. In the optimization process, three parameters of the ASRL model (area of single leaf, \u03b1; exponent for canopy radius, \u03b7; and root absorption efficiency, \u03b3) are simultaneously adjusted to minimize the difference between model predictions and observations at the study sites (distances to valid GLAS footprints \u2264 10 km). 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