Sovereign UAV Forensics & Flight Reconstruction Laboratory

Every Flight Leaves a Trace. We Decode the Blackbox.

Drones record far more than aerial footage. Cipher Sentinel's sovereign forensic lab recovers encrypted internal DAT flight logs, microsecond GPS waypoints, unlinked remote controller caches, and desoldered NAND chips from burned, crushed, or submerged UAVs — producing court-admissible Section 65B and BSA 2023 Section 63 electronic evidence dossiers.

✓ ±1.2m RTK Waypoint Accuracy ✓ Proprietary DJI DAT v4 / PX4 Parsing ✓ Class 10,000 Clean Room BGA Chip-Off ✓ BSA Sec 63 Admissibility Certified
14+ Platforms
Commercial, Industrial & Tactical
Full parsing across DJI, PX4, ArduPilot, Falcon, Yuneec, and Agras
±1.2m Precision
RTK Waypoint Geolocation
Microsecond altitude, pitch, roll, yaw, and motor telemetry replay
Class 10,000
Clean Room Hardware Lab
Nitrogen micro-desoldering & BGA chip-off from crushed fuselages
BSA 63 & 65B
Courtroom Evidence Seal
Dual-hash SHA-256 integrity ledger & certified expert testimony
Interactive Tactical Telemetry Station

Live Drone Blackbox & Radar Reconstruction

Inspect how our forensic laboratory decodes recovered UAV telemetry. Switch between active investigation missions, observe real-time radar tracking, inspect carved flight parameters, or simulate the chronological flight replay.

Investigation Mission:
N 000° E 090° S 180° W 270°
● Green: Launch Origin ● Red: Payload Drop / Incident Point ● Amber: Seizure Coordinate
DJI Matrice 300 RTK Telemetry HUD
BLACKBOX DAT v4 DECRYPTED
Ground Speed
14.8 m/s
Altitude (AGL)
120.4 m
Pitch & Roll
+4.2° / -1.8°
GNSS Satellites
18 Lock (RTK)
Battery Pack
22.8 V (68%)
Controller Signal
-68 dBm (OK)
[10:02:11] [DAT-PARSE] Decrypting eMMC block 0x004F2B00. Partition verified.
[10:02:12] [HOME-POINT] Home GPS latched: 31.6340° N, 74.8723° E (±1.2m RTK precision).
[10:04:37] [TAKEOFF] Motor armed. Barometric altitude climb to 120.4m AGL. Heading 084° ENE.
[10:09:52] [PAYLOAD-DROP] Servo trigger #2 activated: Payload release registered.
[10:15:20] [VOLTAGE] Low battery threshold triggered (21.4V). RTH override by pilot handset.
[10:17:03] [EVIDENCE-SEAL] SHA-256 seal computed. Section 65B court certificate produced.
● HASH: 4F92...B831 [VERIFIED]
Forensic Engineering Methodology

From a Drone on a Table to a Story in a Report

Our lab employs rigorous chain-of-custody protocols from physical acquisition to courtroom expert testimony, recovering data even from heavily damaged or burned hardware.

Phase 01

Recover the Data

Physical acquisition of encrypted internal flight logs (DAT), GPS breadcrumbs, and raw sensor logs from the aircraft fuselage, remote controller, microSD media, and paired mobile devices. For destroyed hardware, we perform Class 10,000 clean-room BGA chip-off desoldering.

Phase 02

Read the Media

Extraction and cryptographic hashing of photo and video files, recovering EXIF metadata, camera serial numbers, microsecond shutter timestamps, gimbal pitch angles, and camera settings — establishing physical presence at target coordinates.

Phase 03

Rebuild the Flight

Reconstruct the exact chronological flight trajectory in 3D geospatial KML/GeoJSON: precise launch home point, waypoint way-stops, low-altitude hovering, speed fluctuations, pilot input anomalies, battery voltage collapse, and landing coordinates.

Phase 04

Report It Clearly

Delivery of a structured courtroom-ready evidentiary report with 2D/3D flight maps, timeline summaries, and Section 65B / BSA 2023 Section 63 statutory certificates that judges, prosecutors, and corporate investigators can easily understand.

UAV Hardware Compatibility

Many Drones. One Consistent Forensic Report.

Our laboratory proprietary parsers support commercial, industrial, consumer, and open-source autopilot platforms.

Phantom 3

Internal flight controller DAT extraction, SD media recovery, and microsecond EXIF timestamp correlation.

Internal DAT SD Media EXIF Sync

Phantom 4

Full triage of aircraft internal flash, high-resolution SD card caches, and paired Android/iOS pilot app logs.

Aircraft Flash Remote RC App Cache

Phantom 4 Pro

Version-aware encrypted log parsing, obstacle avoidance telemetry, and dual-frequency remote control data carving.

Encrypted DAT Obstacle Logs Dual RC

Mavic Pro / Air

Compact folding airframe teardown, internal eMMC chip carving, and smart flight battery discharge telemetry.

Compact Teardown Gimbal Logs Battery Telemetry

Inspire 1

Dual-operator master/slave remote control parsing, transforming landing gear state logs, and cinema video metadata.

Dual Operator Gear Transform Cinema EXIF

Inspire 2

CineCore 2.1 raw video pipeline recovery, SSD drive carving, and dual battery redundancy telemetry synchronization.

CineCore 2.1 SSD Carving Redundant Battery

Matrice 210

Public safety tactical missions, dual upward/downward gimbal logs, and radiometric FLIR thermal imaging telemetry.

Public Safety Thermal FLIR Dual Gimbal

Matrice 600 Pro

Heavy-lift industrial hexacopter logs, A3 Pro triple-modular flight controller telemetry, and payload release timings.

Hexacopter A3 Pro Triple IMU Heavy Lift

Agras MG-1S / 1P

Agricultural spraying flight paths, radar terrain-following altitude logs, flow-rate telemetry, and geo-fence violations.

Spraying Routes Flow Meter Radar Terrain

Falcon 8+

Intel / AscTec Trinity triple redundant autopilot binary log extraction, industrial inspection trajectory mapping.

AscTec Trinity Intel Inspection Binary Log Carve

Yuneec Q500 / H

Dedicated ST10 / ST16 Android-based ground station internal flash logs, motor RPM records, and raw GPS tracks.

ST16 Android Ground Station Raw Motor RPM

Aion R1 Rover

Autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) drive logs, wheel encoder telemetry, LiDAR mapping, and GPS pathing.

UGV Ground Log Wheel Encoders LiDAR Path

RealSense Companion

On-board companion computer forensics (Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano), ROS bag file reconstruction, obstacle bypass records.

Companion SBC ROS Bag Files Optical Flow

ArduPilot / PX4

Open-source Dataflash (.bin), MAVLink telemetry, uLog parsing, custom DIY UAV blackbox teardown, and hardware hacking.

Dataflash .BIN PX4 uLog MAVLink Telemetry
— SAMPLE FORENSIC REPORT

See What the Answer Looks Like

Every report generated by Cipher Sentinel follows a rigorous, uniform layout designed to be immediately actionable for decision-makers with or without technical backgrounds.

Tailored For Mission Critical Stakeholders:
👮 Law Enforcement & Police ⚖️ Legal & Prosecution 🎖️ Military Intelligence ✈️ Aviation Insurers 🏭 Industrial Security 🌾 Precision Agriculture
FORENSIC FLIGHT TIMELINE
SAMPLE EXHIBIT #EX-2026-04
10:02:11 UTC
Power on, RTK GNSS locked (18 satellites), Home Point Lat/Long registered.
10:04:37 UTC
Takeoff commanded. Vertical climb to 120.4m cruise altitude. Speed 14.8 m/s.
10:09:52 UTC [CRITICAL]
High-resolution EXIF photo captured over restricted perimeter. Payload drop servo energized.
10:15:20 UTC
Critical low battery warning logged (21.4V). Pilot initiates manual return-to-home override.
10:17:03 UTC
Motor cut, landing touch-down recorded. System shutdown and physical evidence seized.
Total Flight
14m 52s
Max Altitude
120.4 m
Forensic Hash
SHA-256 OK
Laboratory Telemetry Demonstration

Watch Drone Forensics in Action

Watch our technical breakdown of UAV blackbox telemetry decryption and 3D geospatial reconstruction from seized aircraft hardware.

Decryption of Encrypted DAT Flight Telemetry

When a drone is recovered from a crime scene, standard operating systems cannot read the proprietary or corrupted partition structures. Our specialized engineers apply proprietary reverse-engineered decoders to reconstruct microsecond navigational streams.

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Blackbox Carving: Reconstructing flight curves from fragmented non-contiguous clusters.
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Pilot Triangulation: Correlating RF signal strength (RSSI) with ground station operator position.
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Anti-Tamper Bypass: Defeating wiped SD cards through raw NAND flash reconstruction.
Statutory Evidentiary Compliance

Certified Admissible Under Indian Evidence Act & BSA 2023

All drone telemetry extractions, video metadata carves, and 3D flight maps generated by Cipher Sentinel are certified strictly under Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act and Section 63 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA 2023). Complete with unalterable SHA-256 evidence ledgers, unbroken chain of custody, and expert courtroom witness support.

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