Hey @Andreas
I understand you are trying to read point cloud data for fields other than x, y, z co-ordinates. But MATLAB’s “pcread” function only imports the XYZ coordinates from a “.PCD” file and ignores additional fields like Doppler, Range, Azimuth, and Elevation. To access those extra fields, you need to manually parse the PCD file or use a custom function that reads all data fields.
As your “.PCD” file is in binary format (DATA binary), you'll need to parse the header and then read the binary payload according to the specified field layout. MATLAB doesn't have built-in support for parsing binary PCD beyond basic XYZ, so you need a custom parser.
You can use “fread” in binary mode for file parsing. Please refer to the attached documentation for more information.
Hope this helps!
