GeoCue TrueView GO 116S Basic
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Sixteen laser channels in a handheld that maps as you walk, fusing satellite positioning with laser and visual SLAM, which maps from motion with no fixed setup. This listing is the Traditional Basic purchase, so LP360 Land Basic is the software in the box.
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This listing is the Traditional Basic purchase, and GeoCue names the LP360 Land software tier as the only difference between its two options
GeoCue publishes the TrueView GO 116S in two purchase options under the same product name, Traditional Basic and Traditional Standard. This one is the Traditional Basic, manufacturer part number FTV1001747A00T. GeoCue publishes no hardware difference between the two options. That holds across the product page, the handheld family page, the FAQ blocks on both pages, the 116S datasheet and the hardware users guide. Basic covers essential LAS file processing and data management. LAS is the standard file format for LiDAR point clouds. Multi-cycle processing, control point management, point cloud registration and automatic target recognition sit in the Standard tier. GeoCue states that tier is also required to install LP360 software add-ons and to run the TrueView GO 360 Photo Kit. Take this option where a processing machine in the office already runs LP360 Land Standard. Where nobody has one, and control points or registration are in the deliverable, buy the Standard option instead.
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The data processes in LP360 Land only, and Traditional means you own that license outright
GeoCue states TrueView GO data can only be processed with LP360 Land, and not with LP360 Drone. So the desktop workflow arrives with the scanner, rather than plugging into software you already run. GeoCue sells the TrueView GO under two models. Traditional is a perpetual plan for the SLAM and LP360 software, owned outright with no subscription. FLEX is the annual subscription alternative, and it is not what this listing buys. GeoCue states that Traditional customers are charged a basic maintenance fee covering support and software updates. It does not publish what that fee is, or when it begins. That holds on the product page, the family page, either FAQ block, the datasheet and the hardware users guide.
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Sixteen channels suit volumes, floor plans and progress capture, and the 132S is the buy when density is the deliverable
GeoCue's datasheet gives sixteen laser channels, two returns per channel, and a 320 kHz pulse rate. Usable range is 80 m at 10 percent target reflectivity on channels 5 to 12, and 50 m at the same reflectivity on the other eight channels. Reflectivity is how much light a surface sends back, and a dark target shortens the reach. Stated range runs from 0.05 to 120 m. GeoCue's FAQ for this scanner names its sensor a Hesai Pandar XT-16. It says the 132S in the same family uses a Hesai M2X, with double the laser channels and greater range. Buy the denser sensor when point density is the deliverable, on a detailed as-built or on a scan-to-BIM handover, where the cloud becomes a building information model. For volumes, floor plans, site capture and construction progress, sixteen channels are the sound buy.
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Plan captures under 20 minutes per cycle, even though one battery runs an hour
GeoCue's datasheet gives one hour of working time from a single battery. Its own field guidance still tells operators to plan acquisitions as short sessions, ideally under 20 minutes per cycle. Long continuous captures create avoidable risk in processing. The compartment holds one battery at a time. Internal super capacitors carry the unit through a change. Once the battery is out the tablet shows a 60-second timer, and position and orientation must be unchanged before and after. GeoCue's pace guidance for this scanner is to favor 5 to 10 mph, which is 8 to 16 kph. GeoCue advises against working in rain, snow or fog, both for safety and because those conditions add noise to the point cloud.
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It surveys forward rather than in every direction, so ceilings, floors and overheads need technique
The LiDAR field of view is 270 degrees horizontal and 30 degrees vertical, at minus 15, 0 and plus 15. GeoCue's field guidance states plainly that the scanner surveys forward and does not scan 360 degrees. It cannot capture data immediately above the operator's head or below their feet. GeoCue's own remedies are a loop on entering a room, and tilting the unit to pick up ceilings and floors. Three 5 MP RGB cameras, 15 MP combined, cover a 210 by 170 degree field of view. GeoCue's indoor guidance states that a fast walking pace in low light will ruin the photographs. Switch on every light available and slow down where the imagery matters.
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Loop-free planning holds only while satellite correction is solid, and GeoCue publishes no test condition for its accuracy figures
GeoCue publishes absolute accuracy below 5 cm RMS horizontal and vertical, and relative accuracy below 1 cm. RMS is the root mean square of the errors. No test condition for those figures appears on the product page, the family page, either FAQ block, the datasheet or the hardware users guide. Read them alongside the conditions GeoCue does publish. Without satellite signal the unit computes coordinates from LiDAR and visual SLAM, reaching 5 cm precision within 1 minute. Global accuracy holds almost unchanged for the first 90 seconds of a gap in that signal, and drifts beyond it. The loop-free path planning claim assumes solid RTK or PPK, real-time or post-processed satellite correction. Indoors, and in urban canyons, dense trees and underpasses, loops and a second pass become required again.
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Most buyers check out by card. Purchase orders, a W-9 and tax exemption are the institutional rail, for universities, colleges and government agencies. Every TrueView GO ships direct from GeoCue. Warranty is one year, and a year of hardware and software support and online training are included. GeoCue states that support is provided from its Huntsville, Alabama office. GeoCue states the hardware is made in China and paired with LP360 Land software developed in Alabama. Two figures are unsettled between GeoCue's own documents, the unit's weight and its height, and the Specifications panel carries both. Call +1 888 850 6533, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm Mountain Time. We will confirm the packing list, the software tier and the maintenance fee before you order.
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Specifications
LiDAR and range
| Laser scanner | Survey grade, Class 1 eye safe laser at 905 nm.GeoCue's product page for this scanner lists the LiDAR sensor as rotating. |
| Sensor | GeoCue's FAQ for this scanner names a Hesai Pandar XT-16 sensor. GeoCue names the 132S in the same family as a Hesai M2X. |
| Laser channels and returns | 16/2. Sixteen laser channels, two returns per channel. |
| Range | 0.05 to 120 m stated range. Usable range is 80 m @ 10% reflectivity on channels 5 to 12, and 50 m @ 10% reflectivity on channels 1 to 4 and 13 to 16. |
| Pulse rate | 320 kHz. |
| LiDAR field of view | 270 degrees horizontal, 30 degrees vertical (-15, 0, +15). |
| What the scanner cannot see | GeoCue's field guidance states the scanner surveys forward rather than in every direction, does not scan 360 degrees, and cannot capture data immediately above the operator's head or below their feet. GeoCue's remedies are a loop on entering a room, and tilting the unit to pick up ceilings and floors.A distributor's specification table adds a row reading Field of View 360 degrees x 270 degrees. That contradicts both GeoCue's own datasheet field of view figures and GeoCue's own field guidance. |
Accuracy, and what it depends on
| Absolute accuracy | Below 5 cm RMS horizontal and below 5 cm RMS vertical. GeoCue states no test condition for these two figures on this scanner's product page, on the handheld family page, in the FAQ blocks on either page, in its TrueView GO 116S datasheet or in its TrueView GO hardware users guide, so read them alongside the conditions GeoCue does publish, in the rows below. |
| Relative accuracy | Below 1 cm, published by GeoCue without a stated test condition, on the same footing as the absolute figures above. |
| Accuracy without a satellite signal | GeoCue states the scanner computes point coordinates from LiDAR and visual SLAM in areas without satellite signal, achieving 5 cm precision within 1 minute. |
| How long a GNSS gap can run | GeoCue's field guidance states global accuracy holds almost unchanged for the first 90 seconds without a GNSS signal and begins to drift beyond that. Where GNSS is poor, GeoCue tells operators to treat the capture as indoor work: loops become required again and a second pass is added. |
| Remote measurement | The tablet software computes 3D coordinates for points the operator cannot stand on, to an accuracy of 5 cm within 15 m. |
| Control points | GeoCue states four TrueView GO control points per cycle are the minimum LP360 will use, and recommends eight to ten depending on cycle size, distributed across the dataset rather than clustered, in a straight line, or all in one room. Indoors, GeoCue recommends spreading them across floors and placing wall targets 1 to 2 m high. |
Positioning, SLAM and field practice
| Positioning | GNSS RTK and PPK from what GeoCue calls a fourth-generation air dielectric GNSS antenna, fused with laser and visual SLAM. |
| What it records | LiDAR, imagery, GNSS and SLAM together in one walk-through. |
| Loop-free path planning | GeoCue states its SLAM removes the traditional loop closure and overlap requirement when GNSS RTK or PPK coverage is solid. |
| When loops are still required | GeoCue's own field guidance qualifies the loop-free claim: indoors, and anywhere GNSS degrades such as urban canyons, dense trees and underpasses, loops become required again and redundancy is added. GeoCue also recommends starting and ending a capture with a short loop, and walking each area twice. |
| Walking speed | GeoCue's guidance for this scanner is to favor 5 to 10 mph (8 to 16 kph, 2 to 4 m/s). |
| Session length | GeoCue recommends planning acquisitions as short sessions, ideally under 20 minutes per cycle, and notes that long continuous captures create avoidable risk in processing even though the battery and the hot swap would allow them. |
| Real-time view | A dedicated tablet and application show the point cloud live during capture, and GeoCue lists real-time accuracy assessment as a system feature. |
| Control | Wi-Fi and button control. GeoCue also provides a one-key mode where a single button runs the whole capture, in which the capture scene cannot be selected, defaults to indoor, and CORS login is unavailable. |
Cameras
| Cameras | Three 5 MP RGB cameras, 15 MP combined. |
| Camera field of view | 210 degrees x 170 degrees. |
| Imagery in low light | GeoCue's indoor guidance states a fast walking pace in low light will ruin the photographs, and tells operators to switch on all available lights and slow down where the imagery matters. |
Size, weight and power
| Size | GeoCue publishes two sets of dimensions for this unit and does not reconcile them. Its TrueView GO 116S datasheet gives 213.5 mm length, 126 mm width and 317 mm height. Its TrueView GO hardware users guide gives length, width and height as 213.5 x 126 x 178 mm.The datasheet is a GeoCue document created 25 July 2024; the hardware users guide figure is from revision 1.0.2, dated 18 December 2024. GeoCue does not say which supersedes the other, and whether 317 mm includes the handle is not stated. |
| Weight | GeoCue publishes two figures. Its TrueView GO 116S datasheet states 1.9 kg including RTK and battery. The current revision of its TrueView GO hardware users guide, which covers the 116S and the 132S together, states 2.45 kg for the 116S including RTK and battery and 1.9 kg for the 132S. GeoCue does not reconcile the two.Revisions 1.0.0 of April 2024 and 1.0.1 of November 2024 of the same guide give a single 1.9 kg with no model split; revision 1.0.2 of December 2024 is the only GeoCue document that gives a weight for the 116S on its own. A distributor's table gives a third pattern again, 1.9 kg for the 116S and 1.7 kg for the 132S. GeoCue does not say which figure supersedes the other. |
| Power | Lithium battery with a portable charger, hot-swappable. |
| Electrical | 9 to 20 V DC input, power consumption under 30 W. |
| Working time from a single battery | 1 hr. |
| Hot-swapping a battery mid-capture | The compartment holds one battery at a time. Internal super capacitors carry the unit through a swap: once the battery is out the tablet shows a 60-second replacement timer, and the unit's position and orientation must be unchanged before and after. |
| Onboard storage | 512 GB. |
| Before you start a job | GeoCue tells operators to check the remaining memory card capacity and delete old files in advance where less than 10% remains or the job needs more, and to copy data off with the device powered down, since a powered device is not recognized as a disk. |
| Operating temperature | -20 degrees C to 50 degrees C. |
| Storage temperature | -20 degrees C to 60 degrees C. |
Which LP360 Land tier comes in the box
| Which purchase option this is | GeoCue publishes this scanner in two purchase options, TrueView GO 116S Traditional Basic and TrueView GO 116S Traditional Standard. This listing is the Traditional Basic, manufacturer part number FTV1001747A00T.GeoCue's own product page names both options in full and describes each, and publishes no part numbers. The part number is published by a distributor rather than by GeoCue, where FTV1001665A00T is the Traditional Standard and FTV1001747A00T the Traditional Basic. |
| Traditional against FLEX | GeoCue sells the TrueView GO under two models. Traditional is a perpetual SLAM and LP360 plan, owned outright with no subscription. FLEX is an annual SLAM and LP360 subscription. This is a Traditional purchase. |
| What LP360 Land Standard adds over Basic | GeoCue describes Basic as essential LAS file processing and fundamental data management tools, and Standard as all Basic features plus multi-cycle processing, control point management, point cloud registration and automatic target recognition. |
| The same split, in GeoCue's own FAQ wording | GeoCue's FAQ for this scanner puts it as LP360 Land Basic for basic processing and functionality, and LP360 Land Standard for advanced features like multi-collection processing and point cloud registration.GeoCue words the same feature two ways across its own documents, multi-cycle processing in the LP360 Land release and multi-collection processing in the product page FAQ. |
| What LP360 Land Standard is required for | GeoCue states LP360 Land Standard is required to install LP360 software add-ons, and that it is required for the TrueView GO 360 Photo Kit. |
| What this tier will not do | LP360 Land Basic covers essential LAS file processing and data management. Multi-cycle processing, control point management, point cloud registration and automatic target recognition sit in the Standard tier, and GeoCue states Standard is also required to install LP360 software add-ons and to run the TrueView GO 360 Photo Kit. |
| Whether the instrument itself differs | GeoCue's description of the two purchase options names only the LP360 Land software tier as the difference between them. GeoCue does not publish any hardware difference between Traditional Basic and Traditional Standard on this scanner's product page, on the handheld family page, in the FAQ blocks embedded in either page, in its TrueView GO 116S datasheet or in its TrueView GO hardware users guide.Both purchase blocks on GeoCue's product page are headed TrueView GO 116S and differ only in the software sentence. |
| Which software processes the data | GeoCue states TrueView GO data can only be processed with LP360 Land, not with LP360 Drone. LP360 Cloud licenses can be bought separately to store, share and stream the data. |
Care, warranty and origin
| Warranty | One year. |
| Support and training included | One year of hardware and software support, and online training. |
| Where support comes from | GeoCue states full system and customer support is provided from its Huntsville, Alabama office. |
| Where it is made | GeoCue states the TrueView GO hardware is manufactured in China and is paired with LP360 Land software developed in Alabama.One distributor's page states the TrueView GO is manufactured in Austria and marks every variant Origin AT, which contradicts GeoCue's own FAQ. |
| Maintenance charge | GeoCue states customers who buy the TrueView GO on the Traditional model are charged a basic maintenance fee covering support and software updates. GeoCue does not publish what that fee is, or when it begins, on this scanner's product page, on the handheld family page, in the FAQ blocks on either page, in its TrueView GO 116S datasheet or in its TrueView GO hardware users guide. |
| Weather | GeoCue advises against using the equipment in rain, snow or fog, both for safety and because those conditions add noise to the point cloud, and against frequent use in dusty environments. If rain or snow arrives in the field, GeoCue's instruction is to get the unit back into its container quickly. |
| Handling | GeoCue states the unit should not be disassembled by the user, that a battery other than the default one can cause the charger to explode or burn, that non-original accessories void the warranty, that strong impact and vibration should be avoided, and that a stored unit should be powered on for a test about once a month. |
| Transport | GeoCue states the unit travels in its own container, that the container should be fixed in place and labeled fragile, and that for courier shipment it should sit inside an outer box with foam padding. |
Accessories GeoCue publishes for this scanner
| Which scanners the accessory kits fit | GeoCue states both accessory kits below are compatible with the TrueView GO 116S and the TrueView GO 132S. |
| Extension pole kit | A 2.5 m telescopic pole with a 5/8 inch-11 thread at the end. The scanner's handle unscrews and the unit mounts straight onto the pole, to reach roofs and other high points. A mounting bracket keeps the scanner upright when it hangs below the operator, for a silo or the side of a bridge, and fits the 32 mm black section of the pole. GeoCue supplies a thread locker for the 1/4-20 screw. |
| Car mount kit | A suction cup tripod that mounts to a vehicle hood or another suitable panel, a 1/4 inch-20 to 5/8 inch-11 adapter, and a 10 cm extension rod that lifts the scanner clear of the surface. GeoCue supplies a thread locker for the screw threads. |
| 360 photo kit | GeoCue's TrueView GO 360 Photo Kit merges 360 degree imagery into the point cloud through LP360 Land's photo viewer, with a Street View Navigation license included in the kit. It requires LP360 Land Standard, and the Insta360 camera it works with is sold separately. |
| Cloud | LP360 Cloud licenses can be purchased separately to store, share and stream the data. |
| Software add-ons | GeoCue names Gaussian Splatting and a 3D modeling mesh as LP360 Land add-ons available separately, and states LP360 Land Standard is required to install any software add-on. |
Ordering
| Manufacturer part number | FTV1001747A00T. |
| Speak to us | Call +1 888 850 6533, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm Mountain Time, and a specialist will confirm which software tier and which channel count fit the work you are quoting before you order. |