diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4446d703
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "detectree2"
+version = "1.0.7"
+description = "Python package for automatic tree crown delineation based on Mask R-CNN"
+authors = [
+  { name="James G. C. Ball", email="ball.jgc@gmail.com" }, 
+]
+readme = "README.md"
+license = { file = "LICENSE" }
+requires-python = ">=3.8.0"
+
+dependencies = [
+    "descartes", 
+    "detectron2@git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git",
+    "fiona", 
+    "gdal>=1.11", 
+    "geopandas", 
+    "geos", 
+    "numpy", 
+    "pygeos", 
+    "pypng", 
+    "proj", 
+    "pycrs", 
+    "pyyaml>=5.1", 
+    "rasterio==1.3a3", 
+    "rtree", 
+    "shapely",
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+lint = [
+    "flake8", 
+    "flake8-docstrings",
+    "isort",
+    "mypy", 
+    "pydocstyle",
+    "yapf",
+]
+
+docs = [
+    "nbsphinx", 
+    "sphinx==5.1.0",
+    "sphinx_rtd_theme",
+]
+test = [
+    "pytest",
+    "pytest-order",
+    "opencv-python"
+]
+
+ci = [
+    "detectree2[docs,lint,test]"
+]
+
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = ["detectree2"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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--- a/setup.py
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@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import find_packages, setup
-
-setup(
-    name="detectree2",
-    version="1.0.7",
-    author="James G. C. Ball",
-    author_email="ball.jgc@gmail.com",
-    description="Detectree packaging",
-    url="https://github.com/PatBall1/detectree2",
-    # package_dir={"": "detectree2"},
-    packages=find_packages(),
-    test_suite="detectree2.tests.test_all.suite",
-    install_requires=[
-        "pyyaml>=5.1",
-        "GDAL>=1.11",
-        "numpy",
-        "rtree",
-        "proj",
-        "geos",
-        "pypng",
-        "pygeos",
-        "shapely",
-        "geopandas",
-        "rasterio==1.3a3",
-        "fiona",
-        "pycrs",
-        "descartes",
-        "detectron2@git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git",
-    ],
-)