page_title: Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
section_title: Center breakdown
hierarchical_section_title: Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center / Center breakdown
caption_attribution_description: English: United States Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center Advanced Technologies &amp; Oceanic Procedures Operations Area
context_page_description: Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center is located just outside the main gate of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at 700 North Boniface Parkway in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The Anchorage ARTCC is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States.
context_section_description: Anchorage ARTCC (ZAN) is the northern, eastern, and western-most center and is one of three designated oceanic centers.  The Anchorage ARTCC has control responsibility for more than 2,500,000 square nautical miles (8,600,000 km²) of airspace divided between three areas of specialization and 15 sectors.  ZAN operates on two separate automation platforms, ATOP (Advanced Technologies & Oceanic Procedures) and MEARTS (Microprocessor En Route Automated Radar Tracking System)/FDP-2000 (Micro En Route Automated Radar Tracking System).  The facility also makes use of other technology systems such as FDP2000, DOTS+, ANICS, ADS-B, ADS-C and Wide area multilateration (WAM).
  Some of the sectors cover extremely large geographic areas and on average use more communications frequencies per sector than any other facility. RADAR coverage is limited to 55-60% of the airspace.
caption: ATOP/Ocean21 Automation Platform.
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