DigitalGlobe president and chief executive Jeffrey Tarr speaking Tuesday on a “Big Data” panel that includes, from left to right, Terran Orbital's Marco Villa, Planet co-founder Chris Boshuizen, OmniEarth’s Lars Dyrud, angel investor Dylan Taylor and World View’s Jane Poynter.

In a world economy worth an estimated $90 trillion, the market for information that could be obtained from physical observations will be worth at least $9 trillion, said Lars Dyrud, OmniEarth chief executive.

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