Best Way to Include Landcover Rasters as Part of an Organization's Basemap

[ErikBreedon]

To show landcover under my vector tile basemap, I want to include two raster layers of urbanization and tree canopy. I created these 4-bit rasters from NLCD sources and display them using cubic convolution to create a “suggestion” of landcover. I then added Esri hillshade service on top of these layers using a linear burn blend mode. Should I publish these sandwiched raster layers as a raster tile service?

I do not want to use NLCD's own published services because I have created my own colors. Also, I need to adjust transparencies by scale to keep an appropriate level of visual prominence per scale, so that it blends into the background without being too powerful. It appears I need to incrementally increase transparencies as the map scale becomes larger.

Thank you.

[CodyPatterson]

Hey @ErikBreedon 

Personally, I think that the sandwich method as raster tile services would work just fine, the rasters will help with performance since they're inherently pre-rendered to my knowledge. You'd also be able to change the settings and symbology at your will and republish the basemap, I think this is a good idea myself.

Cody