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Global-scale canopy height mapping is an important tool for ecosystem monitoring and sustainable forest management. Various studies have demonstrated the ability to estimate canopy height from a single spaceborne multispectral image using end-to-end learning techniques. In addition to texture information of a single-shot image, our study exploits multitemporal information of image sequences to improve estimation accuracy. We adopt a convolutional variant of a long short-term memory (LSTM) model for canopy height estimation from multitemporal instances of Sentinel-2 products. Furthermore, we utilize the deep ensembles technique for meaningful uncertainty estimation on the predictions and postprocessing isotonic regression model for calibrating them. Our lightweight model (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\sim }320{\mathrm {k}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> trainable parameters) achieves the mean absolute error (MAE) of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.29 ~{\mathrm {m}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in a European test area of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$79 ~{\mathrm {km}}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. It outperforms the state-of-the-art methods based on single-shot spaceborne images as well as costly airborne images while providing additional confidence maps that are shown to be well calibrated. Moreover, the trained model is shown to be transferable in a different country of Europe using a fine-tuning area of as low as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\sim }2 ~{\mathrm {km}}^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\mathrm {MAE}}=1.94 {\mathrm {m}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>.

A Learnable Model With Calibrated Uncertainty Quantification for Estimating Canopy Height From Spaceborne Sequential Imagery