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Traditional methods describe the degree of the change between two pixels by quantifying the difference in spectral values or spectral shapes (spectral curve shapes). However, traditional methods based on variation in spectral shapes tend to miss the change between two pixels if their spectral curves are close to flat; and traditional methods based on variation in spectral values tend to miss the change between two pixels if their values are low (dark objects). To inhibit the weaknesses of traditional methods, a novel approach to unsupervised change detection based on hybrid spectral difference (HSD) is proposed which combines the difference between spectral values and spectral shapes. First, a new method referred to as change detection based on spectral shapes (CDSS) is proposed that fuses the difference images produced by the spectral correlation mapper (SCM) and spectral gradient difference (SGD) in order to describe the variation in spectral shapes. Second, a method called change detection based on spectral values (CDSV), computing the Euclidean distance between two spectral vectors, is used to obtain a difference image based on the variation in spectral values. Then, the credibility of CDSS and CDSV for every pixel is calculated to describe how appropriate these two methods are for detecting the change. Finally, the difference images produced by CDSS and CDSV are fused with the corresponding credibility to generate the hybrid spectral difference image. Two experiments were carried out on worldview-2\/3 and Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) datasets, and both qualitative and quantitative results indicated that HSD had superior capabilities of change detection compared with standard change vector analysis (CVA), SCM, SGD and multivariate alteration detection (MAD). The accuracy of CDSS is higher than CDSV in case-1 but lower in case-2 and, compared to the higher one, the overall accuracy and the kappa coefficient of HSD improved by 3.45% and 6.92%, respectively, in the first experiment, and by 1.66% and 3.31%, respectively, in the second experiment. 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