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What sort of info does the Mavic itself store?

rabidhyena

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If your Mavic ended up in someone else's back garden and they knew how to get any data off of it, what info could they get? Obviously they would potentially see where you took off from if you were filming at take off. But anything else? Does it store local GPS data etc? Or is this all on the mobile device?
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Beside what may be on the sd card it can be the aircraft's DAT log ... so if the drone is of a model with the decryption key available those logs can be off loaded through DJI Assistant 2 & read.

Below from the Flight log retrieval and analysis guide

Aircraft DAT files

These contain the most comprehensive data, logged at the highest rates. A DAT file is started at aircraft power up and continued until power down, and includes numerous boot sequence, sensor calibration and diagnostic data in the flight event stream. There are also hundreds of data fields, many of which are flags or diagnostic computations of unknown types, probably understood only by DJI. However, among these are the raw and processed sensor data and the IMU solution for aircraft attitude, position, velocity and heading, together with battery and motor data, recorded at rates varying from 5 Hz to 200 Hz. These data are very valuable for diagnosing flight control problems. The files exist independent of the mobile device control app being used.

Unfortunately, on recent DJI models (Mavic Air, Mavic 2 and Mavic Mini) the decryption keys are hidden, and so those are not readable except by DJI.
 
Do you guys know how many logs does it store? Just the last one or it keeps them all? Also does anyone know how and if it is possible to recover data\photos from the vision sensor system?
 

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