<p>The Mavic Mini, the Mavic, and the Mavic 2 do store these data.  The latitude, longitude, altitude (meters above the WGS84 elipsoid), and azimuth will be written to standard EXIF tags.  The pitch, roll, and, yaw of the drone and the camera gimbal are written to XMP tags.  Depending on your EXIF viewing method you may not be aware of those tags.   Try using <a href="https://gdal.org/programs/gdalinfo.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">gdalinfo</a> at the command line, or <a href="https://exiftool.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">EXIFTool</a> to view more of the image metadata.   See <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gerry-gabrisch-gisp-2aa3263b_algorithm-based-automated-georeferencing-activity-6910658166561153024-M1gy?utm_source=linkedin_share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this post</a> for more information on exploiting these data.</p>

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<p>When a dji-mini-2 drone makes a photo, is it possible to automatically store the information that the drone clearly knows at the time of snapshot. For example:</p>
<ul>
<li>lat/lng of the location</li>
<li>height of the drone</li>
<li>angle of the camera</li>
</ul>

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Can additional meta information be automatically stored with DJI-mini-2 images
Salvador Dali
# Can additional meta information be automatically stored with DJI-mini-2 images

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-06-08)

When a dji-mini-2 drone makes a photo, is it possible to automatically store the information that the drone clearly knows at the time of snapshot. For example:

* lat/lng of the location
* height of the drone
* angle of the camera

**Tags:** dji, photography


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-06-13. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

The Mavic Mini, the Mavic, and the Mavic 2 do store these data. The latitude, longitude, altitude (meters above the WGS84 elipsoid), and azimuth will be written to standard EXIF tags. The pitch, roll, and, yaw of the drone and the camera gimbal are written to XMP tags. Depending on your EXIF viewing method you may not be aware of those tags. Try using [gdalinfo](https://gdal.org/programs/gdalinfo.html) at the command line, or [EXIFTool](https://exiftool.org/) to view more of the image metadata. See [this post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gerry-gabrisch-gisp-2aa3263b_algorithm-based-automated-georeferencing-activity-6910658166561153024-M1gy?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web) for more information on exploiting these data.


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