diff --git a/src/apps/base-images/gdal/Dockerfile b/src/apps/base-images/gdal/Dockerfile
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+#FROM geoservercloud/gs-cloud-base-jre:$TAG as builder
+FROM eclipse-temurin:11-jdk as builder
+
+LABEL maintainer="GeoServer PSC <geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net>"
+
+ENV GDAL_VERSION 3.8.4
+ENV GDAL_PATH /usr/share/gdal
+ENV GDAL_DATA $GDAL_PATH/3.8.4
+ENV PATH $GDAL_PATH:$PATH
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH $LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/jni:/usr/share/java:/usr/local/lib/:/usr/lib/
+
+#
+# GDAL INSTALLATION
+#
+# Manual compilation - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76913667/unable-to-locate-package-libgdal-java
+RUN apt update && apt-get install -y wget build-essential libuv1-dev g++ libstdc++6 make linux-headers-generic \
+    libssl-dev swig zlib1g-dev proj-bin proj-data libproj-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \ 
+    libtiff-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev cmake libcrypto++-dev ant libeccodes-dev libnetcdf-dev
+# Install GDAL
+RUN wget https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/${GDAL_VERSION}/gdal-${GDAL_VERSION}.tar.gz -O /tmp/gdal.tar.gz && \
+    tar xzf /tmp/gdal.tar.gz -C /tmp && \
+    cd /tmp/gdal-${GDAL_VERSION} && \
+    sed -i 's/source="7"/source="8"/' /tmp/gdal-${GDAL_VERSION}/swig/java/build.xml && \
+    sed -i 's/target="7"/target="8"/' /tmp/gdal-${GDAL_VERSION}/swig/java/build.xml
+RUN cd /tmp/gdal-${GDAL_VERSION} && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && cmake --build . && cmake --build . --target install
+
+RUN cp /tmp/gdal-3.8.4/build/swig/java/gdal.jar /tmp/gdal.jar
+RUN cp /tmp/gdal-3.8.4/build/swig/java/libgdalalljni.so /tmp/libgdalalljni.so
diff --git a/src/apps/base-images/gdal/pom.xml b/src/apps/base-images/gdal/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.geoserver.cloud.apps</groupId>
+    <artifactId>gs-cloud-base-images</artifactId>
+    <version>${revision}</version>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>gs-cloud-base-jre-gdal</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <name>Base GDAL image</name>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+        <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>