International audienceAlpine landscapes are indicators of climatic variations recognized through their geomorphological and glacial dynamics. Inthis field, the old documents (photographs, engravings, paintings…) constitute important data sources, used for the purposesof retro-observations. The classical methods consist, most often, to exploit them in descriptive works then being the subject ofnaturalistic cartographic retranscriptions. Today the contribution of innovative methods of treatment, such as mono-photogrammetry,offer new perspectives. It is thus possible to extract quantitative information from qualitative archives. This approachallows, in addition to a conventional landscape analysis, to project the information contained in the i...