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Nonvolume decorrelation (γ _Nonvol ) united with the unknown ground contribution will bring a 2-D ambiguity to volume-only coherence, making the inversion underdetermined even when multiple baselines are available. In the context of random volume over ground (RVoG) model and three-stage algorithm, this paper theoretically presented the varied response of different baselines to both γ _Nonvol and ground contribution, and then proposed a new multi-baseline inversion method to reduce the 2-D ambiguity. The proposed method includes two steps, calculating the common overlapped ambiguity from different baselines and fixing the extinction coefficient, to more accurately retrieve the volume-only coherence and forest height. It makes no assumptions on γ _Nonvol and ground contribution. The method was validated and compared with three single-baseline inversions and two published multi-baseline …