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To answer the first issue, we acknowledge MAJA\u2019s capacity to improve its performance as the number of images increases with time. However, in our paper, we used the images we had available at the time we wrote our paper. Regarding the second issue, we misread the MAJA\u2019s bit mask and mistakenly labelled shadows as clouds. We regret our error and here we present the updated tables and images. We corrected our estimation and, consequently, there is an increment in MAJA\u2019s accuracy in the detection of clouds and cloud shadows. 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