Dear all I tried to produce an attribute map in Envi 4.5 from the shape file imported from ArcGIS but to no avail. The other issue is pertaining to exporting vector to raster format in ENVI environment (Other than ROI). Is it possible? and the final query is what file format (excluding satellite images) does ENVI support to carry out supervise classification. The reason being that when I tried ESRI grid format (1 band), the message pops up....more than 1 band required. My intention is to produce a soil map based on several variable or soil forming factor maps produced in vector formats in ArcGIS (converted to raster) using artificial neural network (supervise classification) within ENVI. I did tried with the tiff format by stacking all the variable maps together, trained ANN and executed the classification. The only problem now is that I cannot label the attribute as can be done in the ArcGIS vector format (eg. paddy field..orchard..forset etc). Although I can see different polygons but cannot label the attribute. The attributes are just coded with RGB value (0-255). My worry is that, it may not represent soil forming factors during analysis. For instance if I re-export the mentioned variable maps again, the RGB value will changed based on the colour I use for each attributes. Any help to resolve the mentioned problem shall be highly appreciated. Regards Dorji