High-impedance faults are a challenging problem in power distribution systems. They often do not trigger protection devices and can result in serious hazards such as igniting fires when in contact with vegetation. The current research field dedicated to studying these faults is extensive but suffers from a constraining bottleneck of a lack of real experimental data. Many works set to detect and localize such faults rely on high-impedance fault low-fidelity models, and the lack of public data sets makes it impractical to have objective performance benchmarks. This letter describes and proposes a format for a data set of more than 900 vegetation high-impedance faults funded by the Victorian Government in Australia recorded in high-sampling resolution. The original data set is public, but it was made available through an obscure format that limits its accessibility. The presented format in this letter uses the standard hierarchical data format (HDF5), which makes it easily accessible in many languages such as MATLAB, Python, C++, and more. The data set compiler and visualizer script are also provided in the work repository 1 .

中文翻译：

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VeHIF：一种可访问的植被高阻抗故障数据集格式


高阻抗故障是配电系统中的一个具有挑战性的问题。它们通常不会触发保护装置，并可能导致严重危险，例如与植被接触时引发火灾。目前致力于研究这些故障的研究领域很广泛，但受到缺乏真实实验数据的限制。许多检测和定位此类故障的工作都依赖于高阻抗故障低保真度模型，而缺乏公共数据集使得建立客观的性能基准变得不切实际。这封信描述并提出了一种由澳大利亚维多利亚州政府资助的以高采样分辨率记录的 900 多个植被高阻抗断层数据集的格式。原始数据集是公开的，但它是通过一种模糊的格式提供的，这限制了其可访问性。这封信中提供的格式使用标准分层数据格式 (HDF5)，这使得它可以轻松地用多种语言（例如 MATLAB、Python、C++ 等）进行访问。工作存储库1中还提供了数据集编译器和可视化脚本。