Circumstellar disks from early accretion stages to debris disks motivate anactive theoretical and observational research. Their physics is quite complex and implies thestudy of various domains such as the physics of grains, radiative transfert at variouswavelengths, collisional and radiative destructive processes, dynamics, long term evolution...Such disks provide valuable information on the conditions of exoplanet formation, but alsoon the interaction between disks and already formed planets;they may be in some cases the indicators of the presence of planetsor, on contrary, they may prevent from direct planet detections depending on the observational technique.We review the current most critical issues relative to disk studies, and discuss the needand interest for various observational techniques. We conclude on the importance for highdynamic observations and typical specifications.