Machine assisted development of deployment site inventory

A system, comprising:

• a processing system including a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• determining a target position of a particular physical location;
• accessing an image system that provides a plurality of images based on a plurality of physical locations, wherein the plurality of physical locations includes the particular physical location;
• obtaining a target image from the image system based on the particular physical location, wherein the target image comprises a plurality of imaged features based on a plurality of physical features of the particular physical location;
• and
• identifying, based on image processing of the plurality of imaged features, a particular physical feature of the plurality of physical features of the particular physical location as a candidate deployment site to accommodate equipment of a distributed communication network that facilitates transmission of electromagnetic waves along a surface of a transmission medium.

A non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining an image from an image system of a particular physical location, wherein the image includes imagery associated with a plurality of physical attributes of the particular physical location;
• evaluating, by performing image processing of the image, the plurality of physical attributes of the particular physical location;
• and
• identifying a deployment site based on a particular physical attribute of the plurality of physical attributes of the particular physical location according to the evaluating the plurality of physical attributes, wherein the deployment site is identified as a site suitable for installing equipment of a distributed communication network that facilitates transmission of electromagnetic waves along a physical transmission medium located at the deployment site.