diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b7459be..07e0bfd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ scikit-image>=0.19.0
 
 # Geospatial Data Processing
 rasterio>=1.3.0
-geopandas>=0.12.0
+geopandas>=1.1.4
 shapely>=2.1.2
 pyproj>=3.7.1
 fiona>=1.9.0