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Indeed, due to the large consumer market, sensor resolution and quality (e.g., gain, dynamic range, and geometry) are increasing rapidly. For gravitational processes, such as landslides, recent research has focused on the development and implementation of image correlation techniques to estimate the spatial shift between at least a pair of images by maximizing a cross-correlation function. A generic and fully automated pipeline is proposed for the processing of long image time series acquired for several site configurations. The system associates modules for 1) the selection of the image sequences, 2) the registration of the image stacks and the correction of the camera movements, and 3) the calculation of the terrain motion using change detection approaches. The system is based on the open-source photogrammetric library MicMac and tailored for the processing of monoscopic images. A sensitivity analysis is conducted to design and test the image processing for two use cases respectively the Chambon landslide (Is\u00e8re, France) characterized by slow motion (&lt; 10 cm.day\u22121), and the Pas de l\u2019Ours landslide (Hautes-Alpes, France) characterized by moderate motion (&gt; 50 cm.day\u22121). Four categories of parameters are tested: the image modality, the image matching parameters, the size of the stable area used in the co-registration stage, and the strategy used to combine the images in the time series. 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