Topographic Data Analysis for the VERITAS 2023 Iceland Field Campaign

VERITAS is a NASA Discovery-class mission set to launch in 2031. VERITAS’ state-of-the-art instrumentation includes an interferometric SAR, an emissivity mapper, and a gravity science investigation. The mission will provide foundational datasets to understand the evolution and past and present geological and geophysical processes on Venus. In August of 2023, VERITAS science team members performed a two-week field campaign in Iceland to gather data to characterize and calibrate VERITAS instruments. We report here on the volume and quality of the surface topography dataset, discuss the data reduction strategy, and provide a first look at the final dataset, associated analyses, and derived products that will be made publicly available to the scientific community.