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It's a Texture Palette Atlas, or Texture Color Atlas...or technically we could even call it a LUT (lookup table) but that wont get you the search results you're after.
Typically, an envioronment map is a set of 6 textures derived from the axis of your scene (+x, -x, +y, -y etc). engines or shaders use it as a lookup for reflection/refraction.