Since 1976, David L. B. Jupp worked at CSIRO (Australia) with special interests in remote sensing until retiring in 2009. He is a Post-Retirement Fellow with CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, Australia. His research has included broad-band, hyper-spectral and lidar remote sensing of vegetation, satellite calibration and validation and physical models for land covers and imaging. Applications have been to coastal zone (including reefs) and inland waters; thermal data analysis of land surface temperature for soil moisture and water balance. Commercial (ad)ventures have included an early PC-based image processing system, software for airborne spectrometer data and the development of a ground-based lidar system for vegetation mapping.