SMV file

I have very little programming experience. What I need to do is extract each individual pixel value from an smv file. Here is an example header from one of the files.

{
HEADER_BYTES=512;
DIM=3;
SIZE1=1188;
SIZE2=2304;
SIZE3=52;
BYTE_ORDER=little_endian;
TYPE=unsigned_short;
}

So basically it seems like there are 52 images that are each 1188 x 2304 pixels. How do I go about extracting the information from each individual pixel? I would assume that once I am able to do that I can throw it in an array and then I have all of the information I need, but how do I access the pixel information in the smv file?

I know how to do this with a bitmap, but I have no clue where to start with an smv. Any help would be greatly appreciated.