An Autopsy drone analysis plugin

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Abstract

Law enforcement investigations increasingly rely on the evidence generated on drone devices. Although there is an abundance of published research on the topic, there are no accepted drone forensics tools. You will develop a drone forensics tool which integrates with Autopsy Forensic Browser. To be able to do that, you will need to use the Netbeans IDE environment and be able to program Java. You will be provided with some code developed by previous project students. The tool you develop {processes, extracts} evidence from {a drone make/model, a small range of 2-3 make models} which records {Android, IOS, BIN} evidence and {presents all the evidence to the investigator in a graphical format, presents the evidence to the investigator to then be investigated using third part tools}. Elements in curly brackets to be decided. You will be provided with access to a set of drone forensic images. I might (exceptionally) be interested in a non-Autopsy based tool.

Project preparation: If you are considering adopting this project, you should spend some time learning Netbeans IDE, learning how to compile Autopsy Forensic Browser, and strengthening your Java skills.

References: Bouafif, H., Kamoun, F., Iqbal, F. and Marrington, A., 2018, February. Drone forensics: challenges and new insights. In 2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. Al-Dhaqm, A., Ikuesan, R.A., Kebande, V.R., Razak, S. and Ghabban, F.M., 2021. Research challenges and opportunities in drone forensics models. Electronics, 10(13), p.1519.