The Pays d'Auge plateau hillslopes (Normandy, France) are widely affected by instability processes. In spite of an actual risk, few studies were engaged on these complex phenomena in this smooth topography area. This research aims to complete the limited knowledge about the local instability processes and to develop a landslide susceptibility mapping strategy. Two main objectives are guiding the work: (1) observation and characterization de the instability phenomena (inventory, typology and geomorphological mapping); (2) landslide susceptibility mapping at the 1/50.000 and at the 1/10.000 scale. We obtained a detailed landslide typology for the continental part of the Pays d'Auge plateau. This was used as a basis for several landslides inventories at different scales. Datasets representing the landslide predisposing factors were acquired with a particular attention paid on the quality, the cost and the scale fitting of the data. The work was focused on the comparison between "expert", "semi-expert" and probabilistic approaches to map the landslide susceptibility. The results show that probabilistic approaches can be used complementarily to the usual expert methods and can help in selecting more appropriate landslide predisposing factors, even if the method is widely influenced by the quality of the input data.
