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Therefore, an accurate Atmospheric Correction (AC) process is required to measure SIF from oxygen bands. In this regard, the suitability of a two-step approach, i.e., \ufb01rst an AC and second a Spectral Fitting technique to disentangle SIF from re\ufb02ected light, has been evaluated. One of the advantages of the two-step approach resides in the derived intermediate products provided prior to SIF estimation, such as surface apparent re\ufb02ectance. Results suggest that errors introduced in the AC, e.g., related to the characterization of aerosol optical properties, are propagated into systematic residual errors in the apparent re\ufb02ectance. However, of interest is that these errors can be easily detected in the oxygen bands thanks to the high spectral resolution required to measure SIF. To illustrate this, the predictive power of the apparent re\ufb02ectance spectra to detect and correct inaccuracies in the aerosols characterization is assessed by using a simulated database with SCOPE and MODTRAN radiative transfer models. In 75% of cases, the aerosol optical thickness, the Angstrom coef\ufb01cient and the scattering asymmetry factor are corrected with a relative error below of 0.5%, 8% and 3%, respectively. To conclude with, and in view of future SIF monitoring satellite missions such as FLEX, the analysis of the apparent re\ufb02ectance can entail a valuable quality indicator to detect and correct errors in the AC prior to the SIF estimation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9060622","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,16]],"date-time":"2017-06-16T10:06:31Z","timestamp":1497607591000},"page":"622","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Impact of Atmospheric Inversion Effects on Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence: Exploitation of the Apparent Reflectance as a Quality Indicator"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0296-4378","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Neus","family":"Sabater","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Parc Cient\u00edfic, Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, 46980 Paterna, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4018-9421","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jorge","family":"Vicent","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Parc Cient\u00edfic, Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, 46980 Paterna, Spain"}]},{"given":"Luis","family":"Alonso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Parc Cient\u00edfic, Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, 46980 Paterna, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7192-2032","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sergio","family":"Cogliati","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Remote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Lab., DISAT, Universit\u00e0 di Milano-Bicocca, P.zza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6313-2081","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jochem","family":"Verrelst","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Parc Cient\u00edfic, Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, 46980 Paterna, Spain"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"Moreno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Parc Cient\u00edfic, Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, 46980 Paterna, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4065","DOI":"10.1093\/jxb\/eru191","article-title":"Linking chlorophyll a fluorescence to photosynthesis for remote sensing applications: Mechanisms and challenges","volume":"65","author":"Tyystjarvi","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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