How to load .mcs files into matlab?

[Eswin Paul T]

I am working on Lidar systems and measure the back scattered photons using a Multi Channel Scaler(MCS) The data files are of .mcs format. I need to load these .mcs files into MATLAB. How do I do this in matlab? Is there any function to load these file extensions into matlab? Thanks in advance...

 

[jedishrfu]

Not sure if this will be helpful but here goes:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcen...datatools/content/+McsHDF5/html/examples.html

Are the Mcs files actually hdf5 formatted?

 

[Eswin Paul T]

Not sure if this will be helpful but here goes:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcen...datatools/content/+McsHDF5/html/examples.html

Are the Mcs files actually hdf5 formatted?

Thank you for your reply.. Let me go through the link that you have provided.. I am not sure about the hdf5 format..

 

[Eswin Paul T]

Not sure if this will be helpful but here goes:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcen...datatools/content/+McsHDF5/html/examples.html

Are the Mcs files actually hdf5 formatted?

I am afraid my mcs files are not hdf5 formatted.Is there any other way to load these mcs files to MATLAB??

 

[Dr Transport]

If you know the format, you can write a routine to do it...

 

[jedishrfu]

I think you'll have to contact the company that made the hardware and ask about the file format or if they have an interface for matlab.

HDF5 is a common format for scientific data such as this and it may well be that that is what they are using.

Have you used a dump program like hexdump (linux) to see if its ascii or binary formatted?

Since you mentioned LIDAR then I found these references about LAS file format:

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/las-dataset/storing-lidar-data.htm

http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/las-dataset/what-is-a-las-dataset-.htm