diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index fee9d7d45c4dfce9369dcf25afebbb802b877ff9..7e9bfd30c188cc83b1946c8b60bebf09db03d050 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ test_geoarray_install:
     - conda config --set channel_priority strict  # otherwise gdal or libgdal may be installed from defaults channel
 
     # resolve some requirements with conda
-    - conda install --yes -q -c conda-forge numpy scikit-image matplotlib geopandas gdal rasterio pyproj basemap shapely
+    - conda install --yes -q -c conda-forge numpy scikit-image matplotlib geopandas gdal pyproj basemap shapely
 
     # run installer
     - python setup.py install
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d3f4b74925132149c5d12374fc5f3e55bfa4452f..681c1e3f53f6c3439c3cafbc232fa58f20e92ba4 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Using conda_, the recommended approach is:
     # create virtual environment for geoarray, this is optional
     conda create -y -q --name geoarray python=3
     source activate geoarray
-    conda install -y -q -c conda-forge numpy gdal scikit-image matplotlib pandas rasterio pyproj basemap shapely geopandas
+    conda install -y -q -c conda-forge numpy gdal scikit-image matplotlib pandas pyproj basemap shapely geopandas
     conda install --yes -c ioam bokeh holoviews  # optional
 
 
diff --git a/geoarray/baseclasses.py b/geoarray/baseclasses.py
index 6d414beb0ef09c4d9059cf88b037ef1c140b033d..c71b2041133b81e6674afe7029cc66873602b316 100644
--- a/geoarray/baseclasses.py
+++ b/geoarray/baseclasses.py
@@ -532,12 +532,12 @@ class GeoArray(object):
     @property
     def metadata(self):
         """
-        Returns a GeoDataFrame containing all available metadata (read from file if available).
+        Returns a DataFrame containing all available metadata (read from file if available).
         Use 'metadata[band_index].to_dict()' to get a metadata dictionary for a specific band.
         Use 'metadata.loc[row_name].to_dict()' to get all metadata values of the same key for all bands as dictionary.
         Use 'metadata.loc[row_name, band_index] = value' to set a new value.
 
-        :return:  geopandas.GeoDataFrame
+        :return:  pandas.DataFrame
         """
 
         if self._metadata is not None:
diff --git a/geoarray/metadata.py b/geoarray/metadata.py
index dd58b72522724a9c19e081ae7b6f5017b41d81c8..0fec72d3a759099cc74c3fd15d79fd8f62355a0b 100644
--- a/geoarray/metadata.py
+++ b/geoarray/metadata.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from copy import deepcopy
 from typing import Union  # noqa F401  # flake8 issue
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
-from geopandas import GeoDataFrame, GeoSeries
+from pandas import DataFrame, Series
 import numpy as np
 try:
     from osgeo import gdal
@@ -70,15 +70,15 @@ class GDAL_Metadata(object):
         return GDAL_Metadata(filePath=filePath)
 
     def to_DataFrame(self):
-        df = GeoDataFrame(columns=range(self.bands))
+        df = DataFrame(columns=range(self.bands))
 
         # add global meta
         for k, v in self.global_meta.items():
-            df.loc[k] = GeoSeries(dict(zip(df.columns, [v] * len(df.columns))))
+            df.loc[k] = Series(dict(zip(df.columns, [v] * len(df.columns))))
 
         # add band meta
         for k, v in self.band_meta.items():
-            df.loc[k] = GeoSeries(dict(zip(df.columns, v)))
+            df.loc[k] = Series(dict(zip(df.columns, v)))
 
         return df
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 42dd65aaba990d2ccc82a3873eba9112ec13e542..0ddd5aca2a47656fec8a99645d7ade1bb135a8ac 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-py_tools_ds>=0.10.0
+py_tools_ds>=0.14.25
 numpy
 matplotlib
 six
 gdal
 shapely
-geopandas
 pandas
 dill
 mpld3
diff --git a/requirements_pip.txt b/requirements_pip.txt
index d1b9d57e66c99710bbf93c1b4ca4e16c2b7b22af..f762aecf64e431232801f67488ac8217c77bbf6b 100644
--- a/requirements_pip.txt
+++ b/requirements_pip.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 six
-geopandas
 dill
 mpld3
 geojson
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8ab26a0623e40a4601f06e097d76c57cda9a29d2..82277ea2c3879f45b04d553df7167a01348f699e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ with open("geoarray/version.py") as version_file:
     exec(version_file.read(), version)
 
 requirements = [
-    'py_tools_ds>=0.10.0', 'numpy', 'matplotlib', 'six', 'gdal', 'shapely', 'geopandas', 'pandas', 'dill', 'mpld3',
+    'py_tools_ds>=0.14.25', 'numpy', 'matplotlib', 'six', 'gdal', 'shapely', 'pandas', 'dill', 'mpld3',
     'geojson', 'folium', 'scikit-image', 'dask>=0.15.0'
     # dask is only indirectly needed but updating to >=0.15.0 resolves https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43833081/
     #   attributeerror-module-object-has-no-attribute-computation
diff --git a/tests/CI_docker/context/environment_geoarray.yml b/tests/CI_docker/context/environment_geoarray.yml
index ed95b87a1d0663f2ab8ffe07b388016ca3a94395..6510cd425fb1d6da644b03e5997887265e674bad 100644
--- a/tests/CI_docker/context/environment_geoarray.yml
+++ b/tests/CI_docker/context/environment_geoarray.yml
@@ -7,22 +7,20 @@ channels: &id1
 dependencies:
   - python=3.*.*
   - pip  # avoids that conda uses the wrong pip
-  - pyqt
   - numpy
   - gdal
   - conda-forge::libgdal  # force to use conda-forge for libgdal to avoid package version incompatiblies due to mixed channels
   - scikit-image
-  - rasterio
-  - pyproj
-  - lxml
-  - geopandas
-  - ipython
   - matplotlib
   - basemap
   - shapely
   - holoviews
   - bokeh
 
+  # py_tools_ds
+  - geopandas
+  - pyproj
+
   - pip:
     - dicttoxml
     - jsmin
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ dependencies:
     - nose-htmloutput
     - coverage
     - rednose
-    - py_tools_ds>=0.10.0
+    - py_tools_ds>=0.14.25
     - pandas
     - dill
     - geojson