Environmental pollution control relies heavily on human expert judgment sup- ported by historical data and scientific models.
Telemonitoring, by networks of heterogeneous sensor arrays, provides the opportunity for data mining models to be constructed
from the historical data to supplement human expertise. This paper reports some progress made in the TELEMAC project by data
mining. TELEMAC is concerned with enhancing the efficacy of anaerobic digestion in potentially unstable digesters. In the
laboratory using full instrumentation it is possible to derive a good description of the digester state. With data mining
it is possible to identify some constraints on sensor choice. This paper examines this data mining work from the perspective
of a three layer Grid architecture to see what implications and requirements arise that could benefit the exercise of expert
judgment. After placing the specific TELEMAC situation in a generic Grids context, we present a classification approach to
attributes for metadata and indicate some examples of model resource discovery.
Keywords anaerobic digestion - data mining - telemonitoring and control - wastewater treatment