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I have an ENVI raster with multiple classes inside. I tried to export this to a vector so that I can convert it to a shapefile in ArcGis (I want to manually edit/delete points in the raster), but the resulting .dbf file only has the following columns:

OID | Class Name | Class_Id | Parts | Length | Area

It doesn't have x & y coordinates. How can I fix this and/or what are the other ways that I can export this ENVI raster to an editable point shapefile in ArcGis? Is this even the proper approach?

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  • Try to get it converted to a GeoTiff or other common format then use Raster to Point in ArcCatalog to create points.. it could potentially be a lot of points though. I haven't used ENVI yet so I don't know what it's capable of.
    – Michael Stimson
    Commented Mar 2, 2016 at 4:52

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Using Raster to Point conversion tool in ArcMap is the first thing that comes to mind, it should give you a point in for every raster cell you have (placed in the middle of the cell) and then you can edit the points as you want.

You could also take a look at this for alternative methods.

There is also a Raster to Vector tool in ENVI that you can try, though I'm not sure how well it deals with point conversions.

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  • Thanks for this. I always end up with a messy and unclassified shapefile with conversion methods. I've searched for a few more methods and ARIS is the best one for me (albeit pricey).
    – crftdlve
    Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 5:47
  • You are trying to do classification on the raster?
    – Hasan Mustafa
    Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 5:52
  • Nope, I am trying to clean up my post-classification raster. It's just that the conversion methods seems to lose the layers of my raster.
    – crftdlve
    Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 6:18
  • In that case this will help
    – Hasan Mustafa
    Commented Mar 3, 2016 at 6:37

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