Tersus’ Free Handheld SLAM Field Guide Earns Coverage in GPS World, Geo Week News and GoGeomatics
A 55-page, vendor-neutral guide to handheld LiDAR SLAM scanning, reviewed by an independent surveying editor and adapted into articles for two of the industry’s leading publications, with further pieces in editorial review.
Tersus GNSS | October 12, 2026
Handheld LiDAR SLAM Guidance in the industry press: GoGeomatics, Geo Week News and GPS World.
Shanghai / Melbourne, October 2026 — Five months after Tersus GNSS released Handheld LiDAR SLAM Guidance — From First Scan to Professional Deliverable, the 55-page, vendor-neutral field guide has been reviewed by GoGeomatics and adapted into contributed articles for Geo Week News and GPS World.
The guide, written by the Tersus product team from experience training dealers and field crews worldwide, explains the why behind handheld SLAM operating practice: why a scan must start static, why doors are opened before scanning, why a loop needs several meters of overlap, what RTK actually contributes inside a scanner, and why a false fix is worse than none. Inside are the Ten Golden Rules of scanning, a scenario playbook for indoor, forestry, tunnel and campus work, ground-control layout rules, a failure atlas organized by what the operator actually sees, and a four-level operator competency model with training curricula. It is free to download, requires no purchase, and most of its content applies to any handheld SLAM scanner, whatever the brand.
Handheld LiDAR SLAM Guidance in the industry press: GoGeomatics, Geo Week News and GPS World.
Handheld LiDAR SLAM Guidance — From First Scan to Professional Deliverable, 55 pages, free to download.
Independent review. In July, veteran surveying editor Gavin Schrock, PLS, reviewed the guide for GoGeomatics: “This one is timely, comprehensive, and very well put together. Even experienced SLAM jockeys could find this helpful. Hats off to Tersus for putting this together and for presenting it in a generic manner; this guide could be used for any handheld SLAM system.”
Gavin Schrock, PLS, reviewing the guide for GoGeomatics, July 2026.
Geo Week News. In August, Geo Week News published a guest perspective by Tersus founder and CEO Xiaohua Wen, Three Accuracy Numbers, One Confusion: What SLAM Spec Sheets Should Say, arguing that handheld scanner specifications should state relative accuracy, absolute accuracy and noise separately rather than as a single figure.
GPS World. Also in August, GPS World published What RTK Actually Does Inside a SLAM Scanner, and Why Pseudo-Fix Is the Silent Killer by Peter Yang, Tersus Product Manager for handheld SLAM and the guide’s lead author, on the role of RTK as a global anchor in SLAM and the field discipline that a false fix demands.
Further articles adapted from other sections of the guide are in editorial review at other industry publications.
“We wrote a guide that works for our competitors’ scanners as well as our own because the skills gap is the industry’s problem, not one brand’s,” said Xiaohua Wen, founder and CEO of Tersus GNSS. “Every operator whose first scan succeeds is a better customer for all of us. That the editors who know this field best have taken the guide up on its merits is the result we were hoping for.”
At INTERGEO 2026 in Munich in September, the Tersus team walked the guide’s Ten Golden Rules live on the stand with an MVP™ S1 handheld scanner several times daily, and distributed the guide to visiting editors and surveyors. The guide is also the basis of Tersus’ dealer and operator training for the MVP™ S1 and MVP™ S2 handheld scanners.
Peter Yang walks visitors through scan results at the Tersus stand, INTERGEO 2026, Munich.
“Most bad scans are not scanner problems. They are operator behaviors, and behaviors can be trained,” said Peter Yang. “We published the whole playbook because the industry adopts this technology faster when everyone’s first scan succeeds.”
Read the coverage
GoGeomatics: A Practical Handheld SLAM Scanning Guide
Geo Week News: Three Accuracy Numbers, One Confusion
GPS World: What RTK Actually Does Inside a SLAM Scanner
Download the guide
Handheld LiDAR SLAM Guidance — From First Scan to Professional Deliverable (free)
About Tersus GNSS
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shanghai with operations in Melbourne, Tersus GNSS develops proprietary chip-level RTK positioning engines, survey-grade GNSS receivers, handheld and mobile mapping scanners (MVP™ series), machine-automation systems and the TAP™ PPP global correction service, sold through 100+ dealers in 120+ countries and regions.
Media contact: Mark Chen, Director of Digital Media, Tersus GNSS — mark.chen@tersus-gnss.com