diff --git a/sensing/pointcloud_preprocessor/src/outlier_filter/ring_outlier_filter_nodelet.cpp b/sensing/pointcloud_preprocessor/src/outlier_filter/ring_outlier_filter_nodelet.cpp
index f2f36de726a06..739e5ac8a2656 100644
--- a/sensing/pointcloud_preprocessor/src/outlier_filter/ring_outlier_filter_nodelet.cpp
+++ b/sensing/pointcloud_preprocessor/src/outlier_filter/ring_outlier_filter_nodelet.cpp
@@ -335,7 +335,6 @@ void RingOutlierFilterComponent::faster_filter(
 
   output.height = 1;
   output.width = static_cast<uint32_t>(output.data.size() / output.height / output.point_step);
-  output.row_step = static_cast<uint32_t>(output.data.size() / output.height);
   output.is_bigendian = input->is_bigendian;
   output.is_dense = input->is_dense;