At the level of France or of Brittany, landscapes management and protection cannot be undertaken without an identification of landscape units, as noted in the European Landscape Convention (2000). The present research proposes a descriptive approach of landscape, as an area visible on a territory, which characters can be studied on several scales. A state of art ofthe definition and the cartography of landscape units allows reviewing the different approaches, scientific or more usual, of landscapes delimitation, and then leads to propose a method which combines some automatic processing of a medium spatial resolution, per-pixel classification, with expert-knowledge, in order to produce a harmonized delimitation oflandscape sets at regional ...