“…Remotely sensed images present many advantages reported in literature, such as the spatial coverage and the temporal resolution to provide a long-term dataset of water quality monitoring (Baylei and Werdell, 2006;Neukermans et al, 2009;Bonansea et al, 2015;Zheng et al, 2015;Rotta et al, 2016). However, the use of remotely sensed information, represented by remote sensing reflectance (R rs , units in sr À1 ), depends on minimizing the influence of atmosphere compounds (gases and aerosols) (Chavez, 1988;Song et al, 2001;Tkacik et al, 2012;He and Chen, 2014;Lobo et al, 2014) that attenuate about 80% of remote-sensed signal (Roy et al, 2014).…”