Wave-front arrival time analysis using wide-area frequency measurements

Due to the influence of the local noise at the distribution level, the frequency curve obtained from the frequency disturbance recorder (FDR) unit is too non-stationary to observe its wave-front directly, which causes some problems in the event location estimation method. In this paper, a morphological filter (MF) is employed to extract the wave-front arrival time and the trend of the frequency curve. With the help of the MF, the accuracy of the event location method is greatly improved.