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Based on losing "a few meters of altitude per day," if we assume 5 meter/day at 500 km that's 3 nano-gee. Sensitive piezoresistive accelerometers seem to run in the single digit micro-gee range.[0]

Easier to look at the altitude loss and infer the acceleration indirectly. With access to the raw higher time-resolution altitude data, mapping should be possible.

SpaceX has in the past gone above and beyond to expose TLE data for scientists and astronomers[1], so it's possible that people inside SpaceX would be open to collaborating on such a project.

[0] https://www.pcb.com/sensors-for-test-measurement/acceleromet...

[1] https://youtu.be/MNc5yCYth5E?t=1719

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