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The objective of this study was to compare different stratification strategies with a non-stratified approach using several evaluation criteria. For that purpose, Statistic-Empirical and Sun-Canopy-Sensor + C algorithms were applied and six different stratification approaches, based on vegetation indices and land cover maps, were implemented and compared with the non-stratified traditional option. Overall, this study demonstrates that for this particular case study the six stratification approaches can give results similar to applying a traditional topographic correction with no previous stratification. Therefore, the non-stratified correction approach could potentially aid in removing the topographic effect, because it does not require any ancillary information and it is easier to implement in automatic image processing chains. The findings also suggest that the Statistic-Empirical method performs slightly better than the Sun-Canopy-Sensor + C correction, regardless of the stratification approach. 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