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Although a few unsupervised domain adaptation methods have been proposed to make the pre-train models effective on target domain datasets, constraints like data privacy, security, and transmission limits restrict access to VHR remote sensing images, making existing unsupervised domain adaptation methods almost ineffective in specific change detection areas. Therefore, we propose a source-free unsupervised domain adaptation change detection structure to complete specific change detection tasks, using only the pre-trained source model and unlabelled target data. The GAN-based source generation component is designed to generate synthetic source data, which, to some extent, reflects the distribution of the source domain. Moreover, these data can be utilised in model knowledge transfer. The model adaptation component facilitates knowledge transfer between models by minimising the differences between deep features, using AAM (Attention Adaptation Module) to extract the difference between high-level features, meanwhile we proposed ISM (Intra-domain Self-supervised Module) to train target model in a self-supervised strategy in order to improve the knowledge adaptation. Our SFDA-CD framework demonstrates superior accuracy over existing unsupervised domain adaptation change detection methods, which has 0.6% cIoU and 1.5% F1 score up in cross-regional tasks and 1.4% cIoU and 1.9% F1 score up in cross-scenario tasks, proving that it can effectively reduce the domain shift between the source and target domains even without access to source data. 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