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Unlike multispectral systems, hyperspectral imaging captures hundreds of narrow spectral bands, enabling granular material-specific analysis. However, its high dimensionality, spectral variability, and sub-pixel mixing introduce challenges such as data redundancy, noise amplification, and difficulty in isolating meaningful changes. Traditional methods struggle to disentangle mixed pixels or model complex spatial\u2013spectral\u2013temporal relationships, limiting their ability to detect changes. The curse of dimensionality further exacerbates computational inefficiency and sensitivity to environmental noise. Thus, we introduce UnTrNet, an advanced transformer-based approach designed specifically for hyperspectral change detection. UnTrNet begins by applying linear spectral unmixing to each pair of bitemporal images, generating a set of compact abundance maps that highlight the most informative material signatures. 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