Matlab script for binaries

Dear all, I would really be grateful if anyone could help me to solve the running of a script to decode some files.

To cut a long story short I am a musician and at present composing a piece that includes sounds recorded by NOAA's scientists with an hydrophone that went down to the Challenger Deep (Mariana trench). NOAA keeps their data in a special format that has to be decoded using Matlab in order to run the script they have designed. As you might suspect I haven't got the faintest idea how to do that!! I have the script and the original files (*.DAT) and hope someone will give me a hand with this :)

Thank you all very much in advance!

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Ernesto Schmied

[Guillaume]

I'm not sure what you are asking.

If you are asking for help in decoding these .dat files, then you will need some documentation on how they are encoded. .dat is a generic extension which tells you nothing about how the information is encoded in the file.

If you are asking something else, you'll have to be more specific.

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

The easiest solution is probably to contact the person or organization from whom you received the data files and ask them for the software to import the data files into MATLAB or at the very least a specification of the format with which the data was written to the files.