diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index bac10b9..0404e3e 100755
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
+# instead of building from source, we will use the gdal image from osgeo
+# FROM ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-2.4.0 as gdal
+FROM osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-v2.4.1 as gdal
+
 FROM python:3.9-buster
 
+COPY --from=gdal /usr/local/bin/gdal* /usr/local/bin/
+
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 ENV PY_SAX_PARSER=hs_core.xmlparser
 
@@ -57,16 +63,6 @@ RUN HDF5_INCDIR=/usr/include/hdf5/serial
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip 
 RUN pip install 'setuptools<58.0.0'
 
-RUN wget https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/osgeo/download/gdal/2.4.1/gdal-2.4.1.tar.gz \
-    && tar -xzf gdal-2.4.1.tar.gz \
-    && rm gdal-2.4.1.tar.gz
-
-WORKDIR /gdal-2.4.1
-RUN ./configure --with-python --with-geos=yes \
-    && make \
-    && sudo make install \
-    && sudo ldconfig
-WORKDIR /
 
 # TODO: iROds 4.2.x is holding us to Debian Buster which is EOL. It also requires libssl1.0.0 which is obsolete
 # we should upgrade to iRods 4.3, Debian Bullseye, etc but this will require at a minimum, changes to our iinit use in HS
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2a6d3d9..0332028 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ foresite@git+https://github.com/sblack-usu/foresite-toolkit.git@94c0c2a8e21a922c
 freezegun==1.4.0
 funcsigs==1.0.2
 future==0.18.3
-GDAL==2.4.1
+GDAL==2.4.0
 google-cloud-pubsub==2.21.2
 geographiclib==1.52
 geojson==1.3.2