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We proposed a semi-transfer learning method of EfficientNetV2 T-Unet (EffV2 T-Unet) that combines the effectiveness of composite scaled EfficientNetV2 T as the first path or encoder for feature extraction and convolutional layers of Unet as the second path or decoder for reconstructing the binary change map. In the encoder path, we use EfficientNetV2 T, which was trained by the ImageNet dataset. In this research, we employ two datasets to evaluate the performance of our proposed method for binary change detection. The first dataset is Sentinel-2 satellite images which were captured in 2017 and 2021 in urban areas of northern Iran. The second one is the Onera Satellite Change Detection dataset (OSCD). The performance of the proposed method is compared with YoloX-Unet families, ResNest-Unet families, and other well-known methods. The results demonstrated our proposed method\u2019s effectiveness compared to other methods. 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