Yes, but only if you use the correct meaning of “sensor height.” It is the physical height of the camera’s image sensor, not how high the camera is above the ground.

The basic idea comes from similar triangles: the subject’s image size on the sensor is proportional to its real size and inversely proportional to distance. In practice, you need:

• the subject’s real height or width
• the subject’s height or width in the image
• the camera’s focal length
• the physical sensor dimension that matches your measurement direction

If you measure the subject in pixels, convert that using the sensor size and image resolution, or use the ratio directly:

image size on sensor / sensor size = subject size in image pixels / image size in pixels

Then distance is approximately:

distance = (focal length × real subject size) / image size on sensor

So if a formula gives nonsense when you change “sensor height from the ground,” the issue is that the term was misunderstood. Camera height above the ground does not belong in this calculation unless you are doing a separate geometric problem involving viewpoint and ground plane.