Traditional methods for ground studies are based on the recording of seismic waves from triggered natural or artificial sources. They are limited by the number, the power and the occurrence rate of those sources. Recently, an alternative method has been proposed, based on the use of diffuse wavefields (ambient seismic noise or coda waves). Those passive methods yield the Green's function in the propagation medium from the cross-correlation of recordings between every receiver pair among the array. The objective of this work is to study the advantages and limitations of passive cross-correlation techniques, in order to define their application fields.We focused on small scale geophysics (10 m to a kilometer), and high frequencies (5 to 50 Hz...