diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ca5159fde52..b3f1eba68ed 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "einops>=0.3",
     # fiona 1.8.21+ required for Python 3.10 wheels
     "fiona>=1.8.21",
+    # geopandas 0.13.2 is the last version to support pandas 1.3, but has feather support
+    "geopandas=0.13.2",
     # kornia 0.7.3+ required for instance segmentation support in AugmentationSequential
     "kornia>=0.7.3",
     # lightly 1.4.5+ required for LARS optimizer
@@ -58,6 +60,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "pandas>=1.3.3",
     # pillow 8.4+ required for Python 3.10 wheels
     "pillow>=8.4",
+    # pyarrow 12.0+ required for feather support
+    "pyarrow>=17.0.0",
     # pyproj 3.3+ required for Python 3.10 wheels
     "pyproj>=3.3",
     # rasterio 1.3+ required for Python 3.10 wheels
diff --git a/requirements/min-reqs.old b/requirements/min-reqs.old
index a6e91f70fe9..24e15ba962a 100644
--- a/requirements/min-reqs.old
+++ b/requirements/min-reqs.old
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ setuptools==61.0.0
 # install
 einops==0.3.0
 fiona==1.8.21
+geopandas==0.13.2
 kornia==0.7.3
 lightly==1.4.5
 lightning[pytorch-extra]==2.0.0
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ matplotlib==3.5.0
 numpy==1.21.2
 pandas==1.3.3
 pillow==8.4.0
+pyarrow==17.0.0
 pyproj==3.3.0
 rasterio==1.3.0.post1
 rtree==1.0.0
diff --git a/requirements/required.txt b/requirements/required.txt
index 2fbcd75f732..27ae0610102 100644
--- a/requirements/required.txt
+++ b/requirements/required.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ setuptools==75.1.0
 # install
 einops==0.8.0
 fiona==1.10.1
+geopandas==0.14.4
 kornia==0.7.3
 lightly==1.5.12
 lightning[pytorch-extra]==2.4.0
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ matplotlib==3.9.2
 numpy==2.1.1
 pandas==2.2.2
 pillow==10.4.0
+pyarrow==17.0.0
 pyproj==3.6.1
 rasterio==1.3.11
 rtree==1.3.0
diff --git a/tests/samplers/test_single.py b/tests/samplers/test_single.py
index 764a100c727..00f5889a22f 100644
--- a/tests/samplers/test_single.py
+++ b/tests/samplers/test_single.py
@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ def test_empty(self, dataset: CustomGeoDataset) -> None:
         sampler = RandomGeoSampler(dataset, 5, length=0)
         assert len(sampler) == 0
 
+    def test_refresh_samples(self, dataset: CustomGeoDataset) -> None:
+        sampler = RandomGeoSampler(dataset, 5, length=1)
+        samples = list(sampler)
+        assert len(sampler) == 1
+        sampler.refresh_samples()
+        assert list(sampler) != samples
+        assert len(sampler) == 1
+
     def test_small_area(self) -> None:
         ds = CustomGeoDataset(res=1)
         ds.index.insert(0, (0, 10, 0, 10, 0, 10))