FLIR Science File SDK for MatLab – Getting started

MatLab must be installed in order to use the Science File SDK in MatLab.

If you are using Windows, make sure Microsoft Visual Studio is installed. The Science File SDK requires some C++ libraries to be installed on Windows. If you don’t want to install Visual Studio, you can download and install the C++ Build Tools instead. 

Restart your computer!

Install the current version of Science File SDK, available from our software downloads page.

On your desktop, you should now have Science File SDK launcher. Open this to quickly access the documentation.

The Science File SDK libraries are installed to a location on your computer. On Windows, this is C:\Program Files\FLIR Systems\sdks\file\bin.You can reference these libraries in one of two ways.

Add folder to MatLab path

Copy libraries to file location

You can download a sample MatLab function attached to the bottom of this page to easily import data from a file.

The general process for importing a file is like this:

addpath("C:\Program Files\FLIR Systems\sdks\file\bin")
v = FlirMovieReader(PathToFile);
while ~isDone(v)
    data = step(v); 
    metadata = getMetaData(v);