ClassificationToShapefile Task

This task exports one or more classes to a single shapefile. The vectors include separate records for each polygon.

Example

; Start the application

e = ENVI()

; Open an input file

File = Filepath('qb_boulder_msi', Subdir=['data'], $

Root_Dir=e.Root_Dir)

Raster = e.OpenRaster(File)

; Create a classification ENVIRaster

ClassTask = ENVITask('ISODATAClassification')

ClassTask.INPUT_RASTER = Raster

ClassTask.Execute

; Run the smoothing task

SmoothTask = ENVITask('ClassificationSmoothing')

SmoothTask.INPUT_RASTER = ClassTask.OUTPUT_RASTER

SmoothTask.Execute

; Run the aggregation task

AggregationTask = ENVITask('ClassificationAggregation')

AggregationTask.INPUT_RASTER = SmoothTask.OUTPUT_RASTER

AggregationTask.Execute

; Convert the classes to shapefiles

ClassToVectorTask = ENVITask('ClassificationToShapefile')

ClassToVectorTask.INPUT_RASTER = AggregationTask.OUTPUT_RASTER

ClassToVectorTask.Execute

; Get the collection of data objects currently available in the Data Manager

DataColl = e.Data

; Add the output to the Data Manager

DataColl.Add, AggregationTask.OUTPUT_RASTER

DataColl.Add, ClassToVectorTask.OUTPUT_VECTOR

; Display the result

View = e.GetView()

Layer1 = View.CreateLayer(AggregationTask.OUTPUT_RASTER)

Layer2 = View.CreateLayer(ClassToVectorTask.OUTPUT_VECTOR)

Syntax

Result = ENVITask('ClassificationToShapefile')

Input properties (Set, Get): APPLY_SYMBOLOGY, EXPORT_CLASSES, INPUT_RASTER, OUTPUT_METHOD, OUTPUT_VECTOR_URI

Output properties (Get only): OUTPUT_VECTOR

Properties marked as "Set" are those that you can set to specific values. You can also retrieve their current values any time. Properties marked as "Get" are those whose values you can retrieve but not set.

Methods

This task inherits the following methods from ENVITask:

Properties

This task inherits the following properties from ENVITask:

COMMUTE_ON_DOWNSAMPLE

APPLY_SYMBOLOGY (optional)

Set this property if you want to generate a vector style sheet that will automatically set the colors of the output polygons to match the class colors of the input raster.

EXPORT_CLASSES (optional)

Specify a string array with class names to export to the shapefile.

INPUT_RASTER (required)

Specify a classification raster from which to generate a shapefile.

OUTPUT_METHOD (optional)

Specify a string indicating whether the output is a single vector layer with all classes, or one vector layer per class. The choices are:

Single Vector Layer (default): If you specify this option, provide a single filename for OUTPUT_VECTOR.
One Vector Layer per Class: If you specify this option, the output filenames will be <output filename>_<class name>.shp, one for each class.

OUTPUT_VECTOR

This is a reference to the output vector.

OUTPUT_VECTOR_URI (optional)

Specify a string with the fully-qualified path and filename for OUTPUT_VECTOR.

Version History

ENVI 5.2	Introduced
ENVI 5.5. 2	Deprecated EXPORT_AREA and EXPORT_CLASS_CLRS properties. Added APPLY_SYMBOLOGY and OUTPUT_METHOD properties.

API Version

4.2