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Data from the Forest Resources Monitoring Survey\u2014a national plot sampling survey in Japan\u2014was used as in situ data in this study. The estimates obtained from three Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) datasets acquired in different seasons with various combinations of additional feature variables were compared. The results showed that although the addition of environmental factors to satellite image data did not always help improve estimation accuracy, the use of summer rainfall (SRF) data had a consistent positive effect on accuracy improvement. Therefore, SRF may be a useful feature variable to consider in stand volume estimation in this study area. Moreover, the use of forest type information is very effective at reducing k-NN estimation errors when using an optimum combination of satellite image data and environmental factors. 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