[Grammar] what's wrong with this sentence?

[xtrm_jazzy]

One of the advantages of geostatistics is to use additional information to improve rainfall estimations.

[colloquium]

One of the advantages of geostatistics is that it provides additional information which can improve rainfall estimations.

This may have changed your intended meaning.

I have understood your sentence to mean that: geostatistics provide information which can improve our ability to estimate rainfall - and my rephrasing of your original sentence reflects this interpretation.

[tedtmc]

I agree, using information is not a advantage, providing information is.
Shoudn't Geostatistics, which sounds like a specialized subject, be a special noun and be capitalized?

not a teacher

[xtrm_jazzy]

thank you so much 4 enlightening me...how about this one, what can you comment: > During recent years, cokriging has been used to bring topographic influences into the calculations.< would it still be syntactically ok if i'd change 'during' to 'in'? tnx...

[tedtmc]

'In recent years' sounds much better.