What’s This?
You have just stumbled upon the personal webpage of Zoltan Bartalis. Zoltan is based in Rome, Italy, where he is working as a research fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA). He was born and raised in a Hungarian-Romanian environment in Braşov, Romania. Later he moved to Sweden where he lived for nine years, finishing his school in the south of the country and the university in the far north. Before moving to Italy in March 2010 he spent seven years in Vienna, Austria.
The web page you're looking at has its origins back in 1997, a time when the word “blog” was, quite refreshingly, still unknown. The main motivation behind the website is its Travel Photography section. It reflects Zoltan’s long-term commitment to have the thousands of travel photos he has taken since his adolescence organised in a meaningful way. This also involves choosing photos and descriptions that act not only as personal souvenirs, but can be of interest for anyone who shares Zoltan’s fascination with our planet as a travel destination.
The plan for this site is to eventually include sections on Zoltan’s work related to satellite remote sensing, as well as other projects, like reflections about photography, typographic design, cartography or living in Italy, in general. By then, who knows, the site might even turn into something really resembling a blog...
Contact
Something on your mind after visiting these pages? Zoltan would love to hear from you, even for a quick sign of life. You can create a (public) entry in the Guestbook or contact Zoltan directly at zoltan [at] bartalis [dot] com. Be warned though, at times Zoltan is quite a lousy correspondent when it comes to e-mails. The chances are better to catch him online, using yahoo messenger (bartalzo), ICQ (54969121) or Skype (bartalzo). Use English, Hungarian, Swedish, Romanian, German or French, in no particular order.
name: Zoltan Bartalis
age: 32
occupation:
engineer (MSc in space engineering, PhD in satellite remote sensing)
does when working:
Trying to figure out how satellite-based microwave radars and radiometers see the surface of the Earth, and what benefit that could bring us.
does when not working:
Travelling and photography, reading about world geopolitics, geography and cartography (collecting all sorts of topographic maps), typography and graphical design, speaking languages.